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Pasturage is short, shorter, shortest. Oats and barley are about 

 as last year. Little attention paid to drainage. 



FRANKLIX COUNTY. 



Roive (J. F. Brown). — Corn has suffered on account of dry 

 weather but is looking very well. There is no rowen. Potatoes 

 ai'e a light crop of fine quality. Pasturage is very poor and dried 

 up. Apples are dropping badly and will not be more than half a 

 crop. Oats and barley are about three-fourths crops. Our far- 

 mers do not pay much attention to drainage. 



Charlemont (H, S. Giles). — Some pieces of corn which are 

 being cut are worth little except for fodder. The drought has 

 injured rowen in many places. The prospect for late potatoes is 

 fairly good, considerable blight, no rot. Tobacco injured by 

 drought. Apples, pears, peaches and grapes all below the aver- 

 age. Pastures are very dry and short. Oats and barley, are nearly 

 as good as last year. Drain tiles are used in some places as are 

 also small poles with a covering of stone. 



Conway (J. C. Newhall). — Corn has suffered much from 

 drought ; on dry land there are no ears at all. The rowen crop is 

 almost a failure. Potatoes are a very light crop, no rot. Tobacco 

 stood the drought well and is mostly harvested, being a better crop 

 than last year. Apples and pears good, no peaches, not many 

 grapes. Pastures were never known to be so short and dry ; cows 

 must be fed about as in winter. Oats and barley below the aver- 

 age. Considerable draining has been done, formerly with stone 

 but of late with tile. 



Deerjield (Chas. Jones). — Corn a fair crop. Rowen poor, not 

 more than an average crop. No blight or rot on potatoes, but 

 they are not a full crop. The tobacco crop is good, better than 

 last year. Not a full crop of apples, a few pears, no peaches, a 

 few grapes. Pasturage is poor. Oats and barley are better than 

 last year. Some draining is done, mostly with open drains. 



Northfield (Chas. Pomeroy). — Corn probably about a three- 

 fourths crop, dry weather injuring it. Next to no rowen. Pota- 

 toes a half crop, a little blight, but no rot. Tobacco is looking 

 first-rate, average better than last year. Apples a three-fourths 

 crop, pears one-fourth, no peaches, grapes one-fourth, cranberries 

 drying up. Feed in pastures nearly all dried up. Barley about 

 average, oats a little below. Some farmers drain with open 

 ditches, some with stone drains and others with tile. 



Montcujne (C. S. Raymond). — Corn on moist land about an 

 average crop, on light soil very poor. No rowen to speak of. 

 Potatoes a very light crop, some blight, no rot. Tobacco is 



