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crop. The usual amount of fall seeding has been done and it 

 looks finely. Rowen is above a normal crop and fall feed is in 

 fine condition. Not many onions are raised in this vicinity. 

 Potatoes made a fair yield and on light soil not many have rotted. 

 Root crops, celery and other late market-garden crops promise to 

 be fully as good as usual. Apples are about half a crop ; pears 

 fine ; no grapes. 



Chesterfield (Horatio Bisbee). — Indian corn is about an entire 

 failure. Rowen and fall feed are good with but little frost as yet 

 to damage them. The usual amount of fall seeding has been done 

 and it is in good condition. The potato crop as a whole is not 

 very good, some fields good while others are poor. Apples are 

 fairly good for the off year ; no other fruit of any account. 



HAMPDEN COUNTY. 



Chester (C. Z. Inzell). — Indian corn is a poor crop and not 

 half of it will mature. Rowen and fall feed are up to the usual 

 average. The usual amount of fall seeding has been done and it 

 is looking well. Potatoes are a light crop and are rotting some- 

 what. Apples are a light crop. 



Blaridford (E. W. Boise). — The corn crop is almost a total 

 failure as to grain and not over half a crop as to stover. Hay and 

 rowen were extra good crops and barns are well filled. Less than 

 the usual amount of fall seeding has been done, but it is in good 

 condition. Onions are a full normal crop. Potatoes are rotting 

 badly, very few fields showing no decay, but are otherwise of good 

 quality. Root crops promise fairly well but not up to the average. 

 Apples promise to prove a good yield, mainly Baldwins ; some 

 pears ; no peaches or grapes ; cranberries a good crop. Stock will 

 come to barns in perhaps better than average condition. 



Russell (E. D. Parks) . — Farmers are just commencing to cut 

 the corn crop, and a smaller yield than usual is expected. Rowen 

 and fall feed are above the average on fields where the hay crop 

 was taken off early. Less than the usual amount of fall seeding 

 has been done as yet, but all that is in is looking nicely. Onions 

 arie a very poor crop. Potatoes are not up to expectations, quite 

 a little rot being reported. The prospect is very good for root 

 crops, celery and other late market-garden crops. Fruit promises 

 very well, but apples are falling from the trees quite a good deal. 



Westfield (C. F. Fowler). — Many fields of corn are a failure 

 except for stover. Rowen on early cut fields is heavy, but on late 

 cut very light. Less seeding has been done as yet than is usual. 

 Potatoes are yielding unusually well, but are rotting badly. Man- 



