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average in yield and price. Apples good, pears good, peaches light. 

 Pastures are now short. Early sown grain crops were good, later 

 ones not so good. 



Ipsivich (O. C. Smith). — Squash bugs are doing the most 

 damage. Corn is in fair condition ; 10 per cent will be put in the 

 silo. Hay was a two-thirds crop of good quality and well cured. 

 Fodder corn, oats and barley are raised for forage ; ci'ops gener- 

 ally about half of average. Most garden crops are growing finely 

 except potatoes ; yield and price about average. Apples and 

 pears promise well, peaches small, grapes fair, cranberries fair. 

 Pasturage is good where not overstocked. Oats and barley about 

 half crops and rye but little better. 



Topsjield (B. P. Pike). — Horn flies are thicker than ever. 

 Corn was injured by drought but is looking well; about 10 per 

 cent will be put in the silo. Hay was about 80 per cent of a full 

 crop ; quality excellent. Corn, Hungarian and barley are used for 

 forage ; late sown Hungarian on dry land failed to come up. 

 Early potatoes are not a full crop. Apples and pears will be 

 average ; no cranberries. Pastures are about as bad as they can 

 be. Early potatoes almost a failure ; price below the average. 

 No market garden crops were up to the average. 



MarUehead (Wm. S. Phillips, Jr.). — Corn in fair condition; 

 90 per cent will go into the silo. The hay crop was apparently 

 fully up to the average. Corn, millet, oats and pease, and man- 

 golds are raised to supplement the hay crop ; condition good. 

 Market garden crops a little under average ; early potatoes poor. 

 Very little fruit. Pasturage very poor. Rye, oats and barley 

 about average. 



NORFOLK COUNTY. 



Cohasset (E. E. Ellms). — Corn is looking well. Hay about a 

 three-fourths crop of very fine quality. Corn, rye and barley are 

 being raised to supplement the hay crop. Market garden crops 

 are in good condition, the yield being up to the standard. The 

 prospect for apples, pears, peaches and grapes is very fine. 

 Pastures are very dry. Rye, oats and barley are good crops. 



FranMin (C. M. Allex). — Corn is growing fast, but back- 

 ward ; not over 25 per cent will be put in the silo. Hay was a 

 three-fourths crop. Fodder corn and millet are raised to supple- 

 ment the hay crop ; much millet sprouted and then dried up. Mar- 

 ket garden crops 50 per cent yield, but price well sustained. Apples 

 good ; pears good ; peaches one-fourth crop ; grapes a half crop ; 

 cranberries a one-fourth crop. Pasturage is all di'ied up. Rye 

 was a full crop ; oats a three-fourths crop ; and barley nearly a full 

 crop . 



