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cality. Rowen will be a good crop on land on which the hay crop was 

 secured early. Late potatoes will be below the average, as they 

 blighted early. The prospect for pears is good; other fruits poor. 

 Pastures are in good condition. The oat crop is not as heavy as in 

 former years. 



Plymplon (Winthrop Fillebrown). — Indian corn is looking the 

 best it has for years. Sweet corn is not raised very largely for market, 

 but that raised for local use is good. Where the first crop of hay was 

 secured early there will be a large crop of rowen. Late potatoes are 

 looking fairly well, but blight and rot are showing to some extent. 

 Grapes and cranberries give big promise. Pasturage is holding out 

 extremely well. Oats and barley are raised only for forage crops, 

 and are giving large yields. The weather for haying was very un- 

 favorable, and hundreds of tons of hay were spoiled, while very little 

 has been put in in first-class condition. 



Kingston (George L. Churchill). — Indian corn is in very good 

 condition. There is not much sweet corn raised, but what there is is 

 in good condition. Rowen will be up to the normal in yield. There 

 will be a fair crop of potatoes; some blight, but no rot as yet. There 

 is a very good crop of apples, pears and peaches; cranberries fair. 

 Pastures are in very good condition. There have been average yields 

 of oats and barley. The weather conditions are now good for growing 

 crops, and there is no reason why there will not be very good crops of 

 everything of the vegetable kind. 



Lakeville (Nathaniel G. Staples). — Indian corn is in very good 

 condition. Sweet corn is raised for market, and is in very good con- 

 dition. Rowen is about double the normal crop in yield. There will 

 be a good crop of potatoes, though there is some blight and rot. Fruit 

 promises a fair crop. Pasturage is in good condition. Oats and barley 

 are about normal crops. 



Wareham (A. B. Savary). — Indian corn is in good condition. 

 Sweet corn is raised to some extent, and is in good condition and 

 yielding well. There will be more than a normal crop of rowen on 

 mowings that were cut in good season. There is some blight on pota- 

 toes, but little rot as yet. There will be few apples, no peaches and 

 a fair crop of pears; cranberries average. Pasturage is still good, 

 but has dried up somewhat in the past week. Oats and barley are 

 not raised. 



BARNSTABLE COUNTY. 



Falmouth (D. R. Wicks). — Indian corn is doing finely, but is little 

 grown. Sweet corn is grown for market, and is a good yield, but poor 

 in quality. Rowen and weeds are more than normal crops. Potatoes 

 are a fair crop, with some rot now showing. Winter apples good; 

 pears and peaches poor; grapes good; cranberries good. I have never 

 seen so much feed in pastures as now. Japanese plums rotted badly; 

 peaches are doing the same; and pears crack and scab badly. 



