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The hay crop is deficient in quantity, but of fine quaUty. Sweet corn, 

 millet and barley are raised as forage crops. Early potatoes are few 

 and small. The prospect is good for all fruits except pears. Pasturage 

 is in fine condition. Rye, oats and barley are looking well. 



Amherst (Wm. P. Brooks). — Wire worms, forest tent caterpillars 

 and white grubs are doing some damage. Indian corn is in fine con- 

 dition except on the driest soils ; about half the crop goes into the silo. 

 The hay crop was rather above the average in quantity and of fine 

 quality. Corn, oats and peas, the millets, Hungarian grass are grown 

 for forage and are generally in good condition. Potatoes have suffered 

 more than most crops from drought and are generally suffering from 

 blight. Apples, pears and peaches indicate fair crops; plums and 

 quinces about average; grapes excellent. Pasturage is short and rain 

 is needed. Rye is in excellent condition and oats average. Onions 

 started well, but have suffered from blight and dry weather. Tobacco 

 is growing well, but is quite uneven, much resetting being made neces- 

 sary by the dry weather. 



Hatfield (Thaddeus Graves). — Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Corn is in good conchtion; few if any silos in use. There is a 

 good crop of hay as to quality, but the quantity was much curtailed 

 by the drought. Protracted dry weather has about ruined the potato 

 crop. The prospect is good for all kinds of fruit. Pastures are in 

 normal condition. Rye, oats and barley are little raised. Both to- 

 bacco and onions now promise well. 



Southampton (C. B. Lyman). — At present we are not troubled by 

 insects. Corn is looking fairly well; 20 per cent of the crop is grown 

 for ensilage. Hay is a full average crop in quantity and of excellent 

 quality. Not a large amount of forage has been raised. Market-garden 

 crops have given rather light yields; potatoes command good prices. 

 Pasturage is very short on account of dry weather. Rye is a very 

 good crop, also oats, which are mainly cut for fodder. Tobacco is 

 coming forward very well and some have commenced topping; some 

 damage from hail. Onions are looking finely. 



Westhampton (Levi Burt). — Potato bugs are doing some damage 

 and flies are troubling stock a good deal. Corn is looking finely and 

 there will be a good crop with rain; fully half the crop is grown for 

 ensilage. The hay crop was above the average in quantity and of ex- 

 cellent quality. Oats and peas, millet and corn are grown as forage 

 crops, and are in fine condition. Market-garden crops are not grown 

 to any extent and potatoes are not harvested as yet. The apple crop 

 will not be over half that of last year; very few pears, peaches, plums 

 and quinces; grapes hang full. Pastures are dry and short. Rye, oats 

 and barley are normal crops, but are little raised. 



Chesterfield (Horatio Bisbee). — Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Corn made a fine growth and was never better; perhaps 

 half the crop goes into the silo. The hay crop is a little below the 



