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quality. Corn is tlie principal crop raised for the silo and green 

 feeding. Garden crops are very poor ; potatoes late and very 

 uneven. There will be few apples and pears ; no peaches ; few 

 plums and quinces ; grapes fair. Pastures are in fine condition. 

 Rye, oats and barley are fairly good crops. Tobacco is topping 

 out low, but it is too early to determine what the crop will be. 

 Onions are looking poorly. 



Southampton (C. B. Lyman). — Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Indian corn is about 60 per cent in condition ; only a 

 small part is used for ensilage. Hay is a full average crop in 

 quantity and quality. Corn and Hungarian grass are the princi- 

 pal forage crops grown. Market-garden crops are in fair condi- 

 tion ; no potatoes dug as yet. Fruit will be a light crop for all 

 kinds. Pastures are in very good condition. Rye, oats and barley 

 are full average crops. 



Chesterfield (Horatio Bisbee). — No insects, not even potato 

 bugs, have been particularly harmful this season. Corn is very 

 small and backward and the prospect is poor. Hay compares well 

 with a normal crop both in quantity and quality. Corn and Hun- 

 garian grass are the principal forage crops grown ; corn backward 

 and Hungarian not far advanced as yet. The prospect for apples 

 is fair for an off year ; other fruits little raised. Pastures are in 

 good condition. Rye, oats and barley are good crops, both for 

 grain and forage. 



Goshen (Alvan Barrus). — Indian corn is late and small for 

 the season ; more than half will go into the silo or be .fed green. 

 The hay crop is fair in quantity, but below average in quality. 

 Little else beside corn is raised as a forage crop. Kitchen gar- 

 dens are in very poor condition. No peaches ; other fruits below 

 par. Pasturage is in fairly good condition. Rye and oats promise 

 fair crops ; the excess of wet weather caused barley to blight. 



Cummington (S. W. Clark). — We have had very little trouble 

 from insects. Indian corn is very late; some has been plowed 

 under and the land used for forage crops ; little if any will ripen. 

 Hay is about a normal crop of fine quality. Hungarian is the 

 main forage crop raised ; condition good and acreage rather in- 

 creased. Potatoes are generally uneven ; market-garden crops 

 nearly normal. Apples look well for an off year ; other fruit not 

 much raised. Pastures are in very good condition. Rye, oats 

 and barley are nearly all raised for forage and look fairly well. 



HAMPDEN COUNTY. 

 Tolland (E. M. Moore) . — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Corn is almost a failure ; only a small proportion of the crop will 



