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looking promising. The quantity and price of dairy products are about 

 the same as last year, but dairy cows are lower. Pasturage is good 

 except on some dry pastures, which have suffered from lack of rain. 

 Strawberries have been cut short by the drought ; currants are prom- 

 ising. 



Royahton (C. A. Stimson). — No insects are doing any damage. 

 Corn looks fairly well, but is suffering from drought. There will be 

 but a light crop of hay. Very few early potatoes were planted, but 

 they promise well. No early market-garden crops have been harvested 

 as yet, but prices promise to be high. Quantity of dairy products 

 above average, price about the same as last year; cows high. Pastures 

 are drying up. There will be a full crop of all berries; apples 80 per 

 cent; pears 75 per cent. 



Ashhurnham (E. D. Gibson). — There is very little trouble so far 

 from insects. Indian corn is about normal in condition and the acreage 

 is increased. Very little haying has been done and the crop will be 

 good if we have an abundance of rain at once. The acreage of early 

 potatoes is about as usual, too early to tell anything about the crop. 

 Prices for dairy products are as good as last year, and the supply of 

 cows is equal to the demand; prices from forty to sixty dollars. Pas- 

 turage has been fine, but begins to feel the drought seriously. Fruits 

 and berries are not grown for market; blueberries promise a wonder- 

 ful crop. 



Gardner (W. E. Kxight). — Potato bugs and cabbage maggots are 

 doing some damage. Corn shows good color, but is growing slowly. 

 The dry weather has forced haying before the crop is grown and the 

 yield will be very short. Potatoes are little grown for market. Early 

 market-garden crops are not grown for market. The quantity of 

 dairy products is below normal and prices are low; cows sell slowly 

 as few are buying. Pastures are all dried up. ApjDles look well; 

 currants are good, but other small fruits are feehng the dry weather. 



Hubbardston (Chas. C. Colby). — There has been very little trouble 

 from insects of any kind. About the usual amount of corn was planted, 

 but the crop is backward, owing to drought. Haying begins here 

 about July 1 and the crop will not be up to the average. About one- 

 third more potatoes were planted this year than usual and are now 

 doing well. Very little market-gardening is done here. Prices of 

 dairy products for the past year have been such as to hardly pay ex- 

 penses, and a number of our farmers have sold their cows at fair 

 prices. Pasturage is in good condition. The prospect is for a good 

 crop of apples, our only market fruit. 



Princeton (A. O. Tyler). — Squash bugs and cut worms are doing 

 some damage. Indian corn is looking finely, with a slightly increased 

 acreage. Haying has begun and the prospect is that the crop will be 

 light. There is about the usual acreage of early potatoes and they 

 promise well. Earh^ market-garden crops are not raised here. Dairy 



