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Milkmen are making good quantities of milk, and cattle are in good 

 condition, and in most cases a good crop of hay has been secured. 



Franklin (C. R. Allen). — Indian corn is looking well. The 

 rowen prospect is better than usual. There will be about a normal 

 crop of late potatoes; no blight or rot noticeable as yet. Fruit 

 prospect: apples, good; i^ears, few; peaches, few; grapes, heavy; 

 quinces, few; few cranberries raised here. Pasturage is now in good 

 condition. The yield of oats and barley has been light as compared 

 with former years, some having been blasted. Interest in the market 

 production of ducks and geese has not increased. It is a good year 

 for hay and forage crops. 



Foxborough (William E. Perkins). — Corn is rather backward, 

 but the rains and hot weather are improving it greatly. Not more 

 than a half crop of rowen ; even on low land it does not seem to be up 

 to normal. Late potatoes are now growing fast, and very few have 

 been dug as yet ; many pieces are showing blight. Fruit prospect : 

 apples, normal ; pears, fair ; peaches, very few ; grapes, fair ; cran- 

 berries, poor. Recent rains have helped pasturage greatly. Interest 

 in ducks and geese has undergone no recent change. Better growing 

 weather and more rain have improved the condition of most crops, 

 but much damage Avas done by the drought before the rain relieved 

 it. Some pieces of Hungarian sown a number of weeks ago have a 

 crop already headed out, and another crop, sown at the same time, 

 is only a few inches high. Have noticed several pieces of millet that 

 stood the drought better than the Hungarian. 



BRISTOL COUNTY. 



Easton (William N. Howard). — Corn is in medium condition 

 for this time of year, but many pieces are very uneven. Good pros- 

 pects for rowen. Late potatoes looking well ; have seen but little 

 blight. Apples are looking well, but there will be rather a small 

 crop. Pasturage is now in excellent condition. Oats were injured 

 by early drought, and many farmers were obliged to cut them. 

 Celery and other market-garden crops are in excellent condition. 

 Interest in ducks and geese has not changed during the last few 

 years. 



Mansfield (E. Jasper Fisher). — Corn is now looking well, al- 

 though rather uneven. There will be some rowen on low ground. 

 Late potatoes look well, with some blight. Fruit prospect is as 

 follows: apples, good; pears, poor; peaches, none; erapes, good; 

 quinces, poor; cranberries, fair. Pasturage is in rather poor con- 

 dition. Oats are not as good as in former years; no barley. Celery 

 and late market-garden crops are in fairly good condition. Interest 

 in the market production of ducks and geese has seen no marked 

 chan2"e. 



