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yield, of good quality. Lute potatoes a short crop. Good pros- 

 pect for corn. Pastures damaged by drought. 



Worcester (8. A. Burgess). — Grasshoppers, fall tent cater- 

 pillars, apple worms and cabbage worms doing most damage. 

 Rowen not quite an average crop. Early apples have been 

 good, winter apples an average crop. Potatoes a small crop, of 

 good quality. Corn more than an average crop. Pasturage 

 in good condition. Oat crop about eighty-five per cent of full 

 crop ; some rust. 



Grafton (S. E. Stowe). — Rowen more than an average crop. 

 Apples have dropped off badly. Late potatoes not up to last 

 year's crop. Corn is of fine growth, and looking well. Pastur- 

 age in good condition. Oats an average crop. 



Uptoyi (B. A. Jourdan). — Prospect for rowen very good. 

 Apples dropping off badly. Potatoes are a fair crop, but of 

 small size. Corn crop promises well. Pasturage in very good 

 condition. Oat crop a fair average. 



Sutton (O. P. JonNSON) . — The horn fly is troublesome. Rowen 

 promises to be an average crop. Some pieces of potatoes good, 

 others badly rotted. Splendid prospect for corn. Pasturage in 

 the best condition for years. Oat crop not quite up to the 

 average, on account of rust. 



Blackstone (L. R. Daniels). — Potato beetles, tent caterpillars 

 and cut worms doing the most damage. Prospect for rowen very 

 good. Apple crop about one-third of a full crop. Early potatoes 

 were a full crop ; late fields do not look promising. Prospect for 

 corn the very best. Pasturage in very good condition. 



MIDDLESEX COUNTY. 



Marlborough (E. D. Howe). — Rowen a light crop. Potatoes 

 not over seventy-five per cent of a full crop. Prospect for corn 

 excellent. Pasturage better than a mouth ago ; a full average. 



Grotoyi (Daniel Needham) . — Grasshoppers doing most dam- 

 age. Rowen good. Potatoes a fair average crop. Corn promises 

 well. Pasturage very much improved in condition. Oat crop 

 not so good as last year. 



Westford (Arthur Wright) . — The fall tent caterpillar and the 

 tomato worm are doing the most damage. Rowen generally good. 

 Apple crop will be hardly an average. Late potatoes good on 

 moist land ; on high lands the drought injured them. Corn looks 

 well ; crop larger than last year. Old pastures show the effects of 

 the dry weather. 



Chelmsford (P. P. Perham). — Prospect of large rowen crop. 

 Apples about as last year ; quality good. Many fields of potatoes 



