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crop; pears a good crop, also peaches, plums and quinces; grapes a 

 full crop; cranberries about normal. Pasturage is getting short for 

 want of rain. Rye, oats and barley are about normal as forage crops. 

 Onions promise a full crop. 



Townsend (G. A. Wilder). — - Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Indian corn is in good condition and there will be the usual proportion 

 put into the silo. The hay crop was two-thirds of the normal in 

 quantity and of good quality. Corn is the i^rincipal forage crop grown 

 and is in good condition. Market-garden crops are about average in 

 yield and price. There promises to be about an average crop of fruit. 

 Pasturage is in poor condition. Rye, oats and barley are average 

 crops. 



Pepperell (W. F. Dennen). — The potato bug and brown-tail moth 

 are causing trouble. Corn is looking very well. The hay crop is not 

 large in quantity, but was of good quality. Millet and corn are raised 

 as forage crops. Market-garden crops have suffered from dry weather. 

 There will be a light crop of fruit in this locality. Pasturage is very 

 short and dry. There will be about two-thirds crops of rye, oats and 

 barley. 



Billerica (Geo. P. Greenwood). — Gypsy and brown-tail moths, 

 cut worms and wire worms are doing damage. Indian corn is drying 

 up badly. There was about a three-fourths crop of hay of good quality. 

 Corn, Hungarian grass and millet are grown for forage. All market- 

 garden crops are suffering from drought. There will be but little 

 fruit of any kind except wild blueberries, which are plenty. Pastures 

 are suffering seriously from drought. Grain crops are all in good con- 

 dition. 



Concord (Wm. H. Hunt). — Brown-tail and gypsy moths and potato 

 bugs are quite plenty. Corn is well, but suffered from the severe 

 drought. The hay crop was considerably below the normal, owing to 

 drought. Millet, oats and barley are grown as forage crops and are in 

 fair condition. All crops on light land suffered from drought, potatoes 

 especially. Apples and pears set fairly well, but have dropped some- 

 what; not many peaches; other fruits fair. Pasturage is about as bad 

 as it could be. There was a fair crop of rye; oats and barley are not 

 grown for grain, but look fairly well as forage crops. It is many years 

 since we have had such a long-continued drought, but it is broken at 

 last. 



Lincoln (C. S. Wheeler). — Elm-tree beetles are doing some damage. 

 The corn crop is not up to the average, owing to the drought. The 

 hay crop was generally secured in good condition, but is off in quantitj'. 

 Oats, Hungarian grass, millet and barley are grown for forage. Po- 

 tatoes are looking well considering the drought, but none have been 

 dug and the yield is uncertain. The prospect for all fruit is much poorer 

 than at the time of blossoming, continued dry weather having caused 

 much of it to drop prematurely. Pastures are badly dried up. Rye, 

 oats and barley are average crops. 



