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amount of fall seeding done and it is looking well, although too 

 early to report on some late seeded fields. Very few onions raised 

 and those not over half a crop. Potatoes are hardly up to the 

 normal in yield ; quality good, but rotting somewhat. The pros- 

 pect for root crops, celery and other late market-garden crops is 

 fairly good, but hardly up to the average. Apples and pears 

 about half crops ; no peaches ; grapes ten per cent and cranberries 

 not more than that. 



Hubhardston (C. C. Colby). — Corn is only about 60 per cent 

 of a normal crop. Rowen is a good crop and pasturage holds 

 good. Fall seeding is looking well and is a good catch. Potatoes 

 are rotting badly, but would be an average yield. Apples have 

 dropped badly ; no grapes and only a few pears. 



Templeton (Lucien Gove). — Indian corn is very much below 

 the average, poorer even than last year. Rowen and fall feed are 

 better than the usual average, the frequent rains proving very 

 beneficial. Less than the usual amount of fall seeding has been 

 done, lateness of haying having put back all other work, but what 

 has been done is in good condition. Early potatoes were a light 

 crop ; late ones rotting badly. No celery raised ; other market- 

 garden crops below average. Apples light, pears the same; no 

 peaches ; grapes light. The high wind of the 16th and 17th blew 

 off a large amount of apples. 



Winchendon (Arthur Stockwell). — Indian corn is about half 

 an average crop. There is a full average crop of rowen and fall 

 feed is in good condition. The usual amount of fall, seeding has 

 been done and it is in good condition. Potatoes are first class in 

 yield and quality. The prospect is good for root crops, celery and 

 other late market-garden crops. Fruit of all kinds is a smaller 

 yield than last year. 



Gardner (A. F. Johnson) . — Corn will give about half a crop 

 of grain and stover. Both rowen and fall feed are extra good. 

 The usual amount of fall seeding has been done and it is in good 

 condition. Potatoes are a fair crop of good quality on high land, 

 with some rot on low land. The prospect is good for root crops, 

 celery and other late market-garden crops. There is a fair crop 

 of apples, but they are of poor quality. 



Fitchburg (Jabez Fisher) . — Rowen is more than an average 

 crop and fall feed is in good condition. Apples and pears 30 per 

 cent of a full crop ; no peaches ; grapes 25 per cent. This has 

 been a peculiar season of variable conditions of temperature and 

 moisture, giving premature ripening of some products and delayed 

 maturity of others. A cold summer as a whole. 



