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apples set and they have dropped badly. Potatoes are a light 

 crop, with some rot. Strawberries badly killed. Corn is very 

 poor, some on high lands a total ■ failure. Pasturage very poor. 

 Oat crop not as good as last year. Drought the severest ever 

 known here, but it is now raining. 



BerMey (R. H. Babbitt). — The strawberry grub and the cran- 

 berry worm are doing the most damage. No rowen. Apple crop 

 will be light. Potatoes not over half a crop. Corn crop will be 

 very light. Little grass in pastures. Turnips will be a very light 

 crop. Oat crop about an average. 



Dartmouth (L. T. Davis). — The squash root maggot is doing 

 most damage. Rowen not very promising. Potatoes from eighty 

 to eighty-five per cent of a crop. Prospect for corn crop very 

 good. Oat crop fully equal to last year. 



Westjwrt (A. S. Sherman). — The tomato worm doing most 

 damage. Rowen very poor. Apples will be a fair crop. Potatoes 

 a very good crop. Corn good except on high land where it has 

 suffered from drought. Pasturage very poor except in swampy 

 places. Oat crop rather better than last year. Turnips promise 

 a good crop. 



PLYMOUTH COUNTY. 



Lakeville (Elbridge Cushman). — Grasshoppers doing the most 

 damage. No rowen. Prospect for apples fully as favorable as 

 last month. Potatoes about one-half a crop. Corn on high ground 

 about one-half crop, on low ground about three-fourths. Practi- 

 cally no pasturage. Oat crop quite as good as last year. Many 

 crops are a total failure on high lands. 



Halifax (G. W. Hayward). — No rowen. Potatoes are about 

 half a crop, many small ones. Corn a fair crop, though many 

 fields were hurt by drought. No feed in any of our pastures. 

 Oats about the same as last year. Apples will be a light crop. 



West Bridgeivater (F. E. Howari>). — Prospect for rowen poor. 

 Apple crop small and of inferior quality. Potatoes not yielding 

 as well as last year. Corn is an average crop. Pasturage very 

 short. Oat crop compares favorably with last year's crop. 

 Impossible to sow grass seed through August, on account of 

 drought. 



Hanson (Dr. F. S. Thomas). — Rowen good on low lands, poor 

 on high. Many apples are dropping before ripe. Potatoes a small 

 crop, but of good quality. Corn crop promises well. Pasturage 

 in good condition. 



Marshfield (Geo. J. Peterson). — No rowen. A fair prospect 

 for late fruit. Potatoes a small crop on highlands, fair on low. 



