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where there is clover. Prospect for late potatoes is good; have not 

 noticed blight or rot. Fruit prospect : apples, few ; pears, few ; 

 grapes, good; cranberries, hardly an average crop; there are veiy 

 few peach and quince trees here. Pasturage is in quite good con- 

 dition for this season of year. Oats and barley were average crops. 

 Celery and other late market-garden crops are in very good con- 

 dition. Very few ducks or geese raised in tliis section, and no change 

 in the interest. 



BARNSTABLE COUNTY. 



Falmouth (D. R. Wicks). — Indian corn is looking well, both 

 in stock and ear, and promises to be a normal crop. Rowen is not 

 much of a crop as yet, but is growing well. Late potatoes will be a 

 one-half crop ; some blight, no rot. Fruit prospect : apples, a light 

 crop; peai's, fully up to normal; peaches, a failure; grapes, normal; 

 quinces, nor-mal; cranberries, a one-half crop. Pasturage is in good 

 condition. Not much barley and oats grown save for fodder. Late 

 market-garden crops are in promising condition. Very few ducks 

 are raised, and veiy few geese, if any. All varieties of fruit and 

 vegetables are looking remarkably well for such a late, cold spring 

 and severe drought. The early potatoes were pinched, so that the 

 crop is a small one of small tubers, but with plenty of rain the late 

 ones may do better. 



Mashpee (W. F. Hammond). — Corn is looking well, — above 

 the average. There will be about a one-half crop of rowen. Pota- 

 toes are doing well; no blight or rot. Fruit prospect: apples, a 

 one-half crop; pears, one-third; peaches, one-half; grapes, three- 

 fourths; cranberries, three-fourths. Pasturage is in about the aver- 

 age condition. Oats and barley are about a two-thirds crop. Market- 

 garden crops are looking well. The production of ducks and geese 

 has decreased about one-third. 



Barnstable (John Bursley). — Indian corn is backward and a 

 poor stand, Rowen will be a light crop. Prospect for late potatoes 

 is very good; no blight noticed. Fruit prospect: apples, 50 per 

 cent ; pears, 85 per cent ; peaches, 90 per cent ; grapes, 100 per cent ; 

 cranberries, 90 per cent. Pastures are in very good condition. Oats 

 and barley were rather lighter than usual. No market-garden crops 

 grown except Cape turnips; these are growing well. No inei'ease 

 in interest in the production of ducks or geese noiiced. 



Dennis (Joshua Crovvell). — Indian corn is looking well. Should 

 say rowen will be better than average. Late potatoes offer a fair 

 prospect; no blight or rot noticed. Fruit prospect: apples, fair; 

 pears, below average; grapes, fair; cranben-ies, less than the average. 

 Pastures and hay lands are looking remarkably well considering the 

 season. But little oats or barley grown. The interest in the pro- 

 duction of ducks and geese for market has increased slightly. 



