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acreage of tobacco, which is mostly harvested in good condition. 

 Apples will be half a crop ; pears good ; other fruits as usual. Frequent 

 rains of late have kept pastures green. Oats and barley are little 

 raised. Root crops are little grown. Onions promise a fine crop. 



Easthampton (Wm. C. Clapp). — Most fields of corn are fairly well 

 eared. There will be a fair crop of rowen. AH potatoes have suffered 

 from blight. Tobacco is looking well, but the acreage is decreased 

 from last year. There will be few quinces, grapes or peaches, and not 

 a heavy yield of apples and pears. Pasturage is looking fairly well. 

 Not much barley is grown. Root crops are not grown to any extent. 



Williamsburg (F. C. Richards). — Indian corn is in excellent condi- 

 tion. Rowen will be somewhat under the normal, but a fair crop. 

 Potatoes are a very light crop, being badly blighted. Apples are 35 

 per cent of a full crop ; pears 75 per cent ; peaches 90 per cent ; quality 

 good. Pastures are recovering rapidly under the recent rains. Oats 

 and barley are good average crops. Root crops are but little grown. 



Middlefield (J. T. Bryan). — Indian corn is in excellent condition. 

 Rowen is a full average crop. There is some complaint of blight on 

 late potatoes. There will be very few apples, but small fruits are 

 abundant. Pasturage is in good condition. There are full crops of 

 oats and barley, they being mostly cut for fodder. Root crops are not 

 much grown. 



HAMPDEN COUNTY. 



Chester (C. Z. Inzell). — Corn is a good crop. There will be about 

 a normal yield of rowen. There will be a light crop of late potatoes, 

 there being some blight. Apples are a small crop. Pasturage is in 

 good condition. 



Blandford (Enos W. Boise). — Indian corn promises extra well, 

 showing a heavy growth of stover, and earing well. Rowen will be a 

 good crop on early cut fields. The prospect for late potatoes is poor, 

 blight having appeared on most fields. Apples promise within 10 per 

 cent of a normal crop, the fruit being fair and of good size. Feed in 

 pastures is very short, mainly on account of early summer drought. 

 Oats and barley are full fields, and well headed. Root crops are 

 very little grown. 



Tolland (Eugene M. Moore). — Corn is looking w^ell, and wall be a 

 good average crop. Rowen will be a light crop, owing to dry weather. 

 Potatoes are not an average crop, blight having attacked most fields. 

 Apples are about three-fourths of an average crop ; pears about aver- 

 age. Feed is short in pastures, though much improved since the re- 

 cent rains. Oats and barley are good crops, above average. Root 

 crops are grown somewhat for stock feeding, but not to any great ex- 

 tent. 



Southunck (L. A. Fowler). — Indian corn is in good condition. 

 Rowen will be above an average crop. There will be a very light crop 



