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Fruit, yield : apples, 80 per cent ; pears, 35 per cent ; peaches, none ; 

 grapes, 95 per cent; cranberries, none. Fruit, quality: apples, 85 

 per cent; pears, 80 per cent; grapes, 100 per cent. Frosts have 

 occurred every month so far, and have killed corn and beans in 

 some parts of the town. Interest in modern methods of pruning 

 and general care of the apple orchard has been aAvakened, and 

 spraying is being practiced, with good results. 



Fitchburg (Dr. Jabez Fisher). — Corn is fully an average crop. 

 The rowen crop is not quite up to the usual average. Fall feed is 

 in good condition. Potatoes compare with the normal, in yield, 90 

 per cent; in quality, extra. Prospect for root crops is promising. 

 Fruit, yield: apples, 75 per cent; pears, 60 per cent; grapes, 100 

 per cent. Fruit, qualitj'^ : apples, pears and grapes, extra. No dam- 

 age from frosts as yet. An increased interest in modern orcharding 

 is very evident among many, but not all. With the exception of 

 the lack of rain through June and a part of July, the season has 

 been almost ideal. Fungous troubles were mostly absent, and there 

 have been generally good crops of fine quality. 



Petersham. (B. W. Spooner). — Indian corn is about the same as 

 a year ago, but is two weeks later. No rowen cut in this vicinity. 

 Fall feed is dried up. It is too dry to plow and seed. Only a few 

 onions are raised, in gardens. Some fields of potatoes are yielding 

 fairly well, others light; quality is good, with no rot. Fruit, yield: 

 apples, normal; pears, few; peaches, none; grapes, few; cranberries, 

 none. Fruit, quality: apples, good. Damage from early frosts has 

 occurred only on low lands, and only to corn. Our agricultural 

 high school members have taken some interest in pruning and spray- 

 ing fruit trees, 



Westminster (Frank W. Derby). — There is a fair crop of Indian 

 corn. The rowen crop is not up to the usual average, nor is fall 

 feed. About the usual amount of fall seeding has been done, and it 

 is in fair condition. Potatoes compare well with the normal in 

 yield and quality. Prospect for root crops is good. Fruit, yield: 

 apples, about average; pears, below average; grapes, average; cran- 

 berries, average. Fruit, quality: apples, good. Frosts occurred 

 late in August and cut down squash vines to some extent. Apple 

 orchards are being sprayed more than in years past. 



Harvard (John S. Preston). — Crop of Indian corn is below 

 normal. The rowen crop and fall feed are very good indeed. The 

 usual amount of fall seeding has been done, and the condition is 

 good. Very few onions raised. Potatoes show a good crop of large- 

 sized tubers, but not many in the hill; quality, good. Prospect for 

 root crops is good; very little celery raised; other late market- 

 garden crops are in very good condition. Fruit, yield: apples, 

 more than the average; pears, light; peaches, very light. Fruit, 

 quality: apples, good; pears, good; peaches, good. No damage from 



