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millet are being raised as forage crops and are iu good condition 

 and growing well. Potatoes are looking well, but few have been 

 dug; early niarket-gardeu crops made light yields. Pears and 

 grapes will give good crops ; very few apples, peaches, plums or 

 quinces. Pasturage is good since the rains. Oats are a fair crop, 

 mostly cut green and dried for fodder ; rye or barley little raised. 

 Norfolk (A. D. Towne). — Potato and squash bugs are doing 

 some damage. Indian corn is uneven and backward ; about a 

 fourth of the crop is raised for the silo. Hay is very nearly an 

 average crop. Oats, millet, Hungarian grass and corn are the 

 forage crops grown, mostly for the silo : oats and millet look well. 

 There will be very few salable apples ; pears and grapes half 

 crops ; no plums and peaches. Pasturage is iu good condition. 

 Rye, oats and barley promise average crops. 



BRISTOL COUNTY. 



Attleborongh (Isaac Alger). — Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Corn is in very poor condition and the present prospect 

 is that there will not be much of a crop. Hay is about au average 

 crop as to quantity and quality. Large amounts of millet have been 

 sown as a forage crop and it is looking finely. Some fields of po- 

 tatoes are doing finely, others not so well. All fruits are making 

 a small showing. Rye, oats and barley are about average crops, 

 both for grain and forage crops. 



Dighton (J. N. Paul). — Potato bugs are doing a little damage. 

 Corn promises about two-thirds of a crop, did not come up well ; 

 only a small proportion will be used in the silo. Hay is about a 

 two-thirds crop of good quality. Hungarian grass, millet and 

 fodder corn are the principal forage crops grown and more are 

 being raised than usual. Market-garden crops good ; potatoes 

 good; prices for early market-garden crops good. Apples fair; 

 pears good ; no peaches, plums or quinces ; grapes good. Pas- 

 tures are in good condition. Rye and oats good ; barley not grown. 

 Strawberry plants are making good growth. Onions are looking 

 well, but are thinly stocked as they did not come up well and have 

 been badly worked by maggots. 



Westport (A. S. Sherman). — Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Indian corn is not doing as well as last year; no silos. 

 Quantity of the hay crop as large as usual and quality very good. 

 Corn, r^'e and oats are raised quite extensively for forage crops ; 

 good condition, no more raised than usual. Potatoes have im- 

 proved decidedly of late and those harvested yield well. Apples 

 a fair crop ; pears plenty ; no peaches ; plums scarce ; no quinces ; 



