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three silos in town. Hay will be from two- thirds to three-fourths 

 of a full crop of more than average quality. Fodder corn, barley, 

 oats and the millets are the principal forage crops ; condition 

 good, except corn, and nearly double the usual acreage. Potatoes 

 promise to be an average crop. Apples will be a very light crop 

 as it is the off year. Pasturage is in good condition. Rye, oats 

 and barley are full average crops, but are little grown for grain. 

 Beans have rusted badly. Vines, especially melons and cucum- 

 bers, are dying very rapidly. 



Enfield (D. O. Chickering). — There is no special trouble from 

 insects. Corn is very backward ; a small proportion if any of the 

 crop goes into the silo. The hay crop compares favorably with 

 former years in quantity and quality. Potatoes are backward and 

 none have been marketed as yet. There will be but a small amount 

 of fruit of any kind. Pastures are in good condition. Rye, oats 

 and barley are about average crops, both for grain and forage. 



Belchertown (H. C. West). — Potato bugs are doing a little 

 damage. Corn is now growing well and looks finely, but is two 

 weeks late ; very little will go into the silo. Hay is very nearly 

 up to a normal crop in both quantity and quality. Oats, millet 

 and fodder corn, with some Hungarian grass, are the forage crops 

 grown ; all are growing finely and more than usual have been 

 sown. Potatoes promise finely ; other market-garden crops not 

 up to the average. Apples fair; no pears; very few peaches, 

 plums and quinces ; grapes fair. Pasturage is in very good con- 

 dition, having made wonderful improvement. Rye, oats and bar- 

 ley are nearly average crops. 



Amherst (Wm. P. Brooks). — Onion and cabbage maggots are 

 doing some damage. Corn is very uneven, being mostly poor and 

 exceptionally small for the season ; few fields will ripen unless 

 weather is unusually hot during the balance of the season. Yield 

 of hay about average and quality good, though better harvest 

 weather is needed. Japanese barnyard millet, corn, oats and 

 peas, barley and peas and sand vetch, to a limited extent, are the 

 forage crops grown. Potatoes promise exceptionally well ; market- 

 garden crops, except cucumbers and melons, good ; prices about 

 average. Apples uneven, but promise very well ; pears few ; no 

 peaches; plums light; grapes promise well. Pasturage is in ex- 

 cellent condition. Rye light ; oats are rusting. Tobacco looks 

 well. Onions very uneven ; many fields thin owing to maggots. 



Northampton (H. C. Comins). — Potato bugs are our most 

 troublesome insect. Indian corn is very backward and poorly 

 stocked ; approximately one-fifth of the crop will be put into the 

 silo. The hay crop is as large as last year in quantity and of good 



