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Fruits. 

 Apples are holding on well, and promise an unusually good 

 <5rop for an off year, as it is in most localities. The quality 

 of the fruit promises to be good. Pears are a fair crop, of 

 gODd quality. There will be practically no peaches, except 

 ill a few favored localities. Grapes promise a fair crop, 

 though hardly an average one. Cranberries are a light crop 

 in all sections, owing to the late spring frosts. 



Pasturage. 

 Pastures are generally in first-class condition, much better 

 than is usual at this time of jeav, although at the time of 

 making returns rains were needed on the Cape to enable 

 them to carry through the season, 



Oats and Barley. 

 Oats are a fair average crop, reports of unusually good 

 crops being about balanced by adverse ones from other sec- 

 tions. Barley is bat little raised, except for forage. Both 

 have done well in this latter capacity. 



Poultry Keeping. 

 It is the general opinion of the correspondents that but 

 few farmers give poultry the care it should have for good 

 results, but they also appear to believe that even under 

 present conditions it is generally a profitable branch of 

 farming. Attention is called to the article at tlie end of the 

 bulletin, which elaborates plans for keeping poultry on 

 farms with a minimum of labor, — an im})ortant item with 

 all farmers. 



