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tion of pasturage is good. Oats and barley are better than in former 

 years, due to late rains. Late market-gai'den crops are in good con- 

 dition. Interest in ducks and geese has not increased. 



Dunstable (A. J. Gilson). — Indian corn is a little late, but in 

 fine condition. Rowen will be a good, normal crop. Late potatoes 

 promise a medium crop ; little blight has been noticed. Fruit pros- 

 pect: apples, light; pears, none; peaches, none; quinces, none; 

 grapes, some; cranberries, medium. Feed in pastures is short. Oats 

 raised for grain have done well ; no barley raised for grain. Late 

 market-garden crops are in good condition. Iiiterest in ducks and 

 geese has not increased. 



Billerica (E. F. Dickinson). — Indian corn is in fairly good con- 

 dition, but ten days late; not much grown in town. Sweet com for 

 market is grown quite largely. Rowen will be about a one-half crop 

 in my own and neighbors' fields. Prospect for late potatoes medium ; 

 some blight. Fruit prospect : apples, a two-thirds yield ; pears, very 

 few; peaches, almost a failure; grapes, good; quinces, fair; cran- 

 berries, light. Condition of pasturage is excellent since the rains. 

 Oats and barley are grown only for fodder. There is the usual crop 

 of oats and barley; feed is showing up well. Fair promise for late 

 market-garden crops. Interest in production of ducks and geese has 

 not increased. This has been a season of extremes, but vegetation 

 now looks vastly better than in June seemed possible. 



Sudbury (Edgar W. Goodnow). — Indian corn is looking well, 

 but is backward. The rowen crop will be about normal. Late pota- 

 toes are looking well, with no signs of rot or blight. Fruit prospect : 

 apples, scarce; pears, 50 per cent; peaches, none; grapes, plentiful; 

 quinces, scarce; cranberries, plentiful. The late rains have greatly 

 improved the pastures. About the same amount of oats and barley 

 raised as in former years. No celery raised here; other late market- 

 garden crops are looking well. No ducks or geese raised in this town 

 for market. 



Lincoln (C. S. Wheeler). — What little Indian corn is raised is 

 looking fairly well, say 80 per cent. Rowen will be a two-thirds crop. 

 Potatoes will be a fair crop ; some rot. Fruit prospect : Gravenstein 

 apples, good; Baldwins, poor; pears, fair; peaches, poor; grapes, 

 good. Pasturage has been much improved by rains. Oats and barley 

 are about 6G per cent crops as compared with former years ; lack of 

 early rains curtailed crop on hilly land. Celery and other late 

 market-garden crops are rather backward. Interest in ducks and 

 geese has not increased. 



Winchester (S. S. Si'MMEs). — No Indian corn raised. Good crop 

 of rowen in sight, — fully up to the normal. Crop of late potatoes 

 will not be heavy; some rot. Fruit prospect: apples, pears and 

 peaches will be the smallest crop in years, because of heavy drop in 

 June, due to droug-ht or failure to set; grapes are a good crop; 



