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veBted light with prices a little liigher than usual. Prospect for 

 apples and pears good. Pastures arc in very good condition. 

 Rye, oats and barley are looking well. 



Millbiiry (Herbert McCracken). — Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Indian corn is very backward ; perhaps half the crop 

 will go into the silo. Quantity of the hay crop nearly average and 

 quality excellent. Fodder corn, millet and barley are the forage 

 crops grown ; condition of corn not very good ; acreage about the 

 same as usual. Potatoes backward, injured by heavy rains, not 

 harvested yet. There is about half a crop of apples and pears ; 

 no peaches ; fair yield of plums, quinces and grapes ; cranberries 

 just blossoming. Pasturage is in excellent condition. Rye, oats 

 and barley promise well. 



Oxford (D. M. Howe). — Corn is very uneven and most of it 

 will go into the silo. Hay is about an average crop in quantity 

 and quality. Japanese millet is quite largely grown for forage and 

 some sow corn to mow green. Market-garden crops are very 

 backward. Apples and pears are few ; plums, quinces and grapes 

 fair. Pastures are now in good condition. Rye, oats and barley 

 are average crops. All crops are coming forward with the rains 

 and warmer weather. 



Mendon (J. J. Nutter). — Potato bugs and striped squash bugs 

 are doing some damage. Corn is poor and backward. Hay is 

 good when well cured and is nearly an average crop in quantity. 

 Millet, oats and corn are the forage crops grown ; oats and corn 

 are looking well ; more raised than usual. Potatoes are looking 

 well, not many harvested as yet. There will be a small crop of 

 apples ; pears look quite well ; no peaches ; some grapes and a 

 few plums. The frequent rains have improved the pasturage. 

 Rye, oats and barley are little grown. 



MIDDLESEX COUNTY. 



Hopkinton (W. V. Thompson). — Corn is about three weeks 

 late ; about half the crop is raised for the silo. Hay is about an 

 average crop in quantity and quality, but is not all secured as yet. 

 Hungarian grass and Japanese millet are looking well but are 

 late. Not many market-garden crops raised ; potatoes look well. 

 Apples light crop ; pears good ; no peaches or plums ; grapes a 

 very small crop. Pastures are in good condition. Oats are a good 

 crop ; other grains not much raised. 



Marlborough (E. D. Howe). — Potato bugs, striped squash 

 bugs and horn flies are causing some trouble. Indian corn is 

 three weeks late and very uneven ; nine-tenths of the crop will 

 be used for ensilage. The hay crop is better than many antici- 



