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growth, and the crop will be above the average. Rowen will be the 

 best crop for several years. Potatoes will be a light crop, owing to 

 blight. The ajiple crop will not bo up to the average. Pastui-age is 

 in excellent condition. Oats and barley arc heavy yields, both as 

 grain and forage crops. Root crops are grown for stock food to a 

 limited extent. 



Sterling (Henry S. Sawyer). — Corn is looking finely, and there is 

 the prospect of a good crop if warm weather continues. Rowen is 

 hardly up to a normal crop. Blight has struck some fields of potatoes, 

 but others are looking well. There will be good yields of ai)ples, pears 

 and grapes. The frequent rains of late have improved the condition of 

 feed in pastures. Oats are less than a normal crop. There is a very 

 small amount of roots raised for feeding, and beets, carrots and turnips 

 are raised to some extent for market. 



Bolton (H. F. Haynes). — Indian corn is a good crop on moist land, 

 but poor on light soil. Rowen will be about an average crop. There 

 is some blight on potatoes, and the crop as a whole will not be over 25 

 per cent of a normal croj). Apples are a very poor crop; pears and 

 peaches good. Pasturage is now in good condition since the rains. 

 Oats and barley are all cut for hay. Root crops are not much grown. 

 A careful examination of eight fields of potatoes shows two where the 

 tubers are nearly all large, but only from two to five in a hill; two 

 fields that might give 25 per cent of a normal crop ; and four that will 

 not yield enough to pay for digging, — one of these is of six acres. 



Worcester (H. R. Kinney). — Corn is in good condition. The rowen 

 crop is better than usual. Potatoes do not look at all promising, and 

 there is some blight. Apples are looking finely; pears light; peaches 

 poor; grapes good. Pasturage is in better condition than is usual at 

 this time of year. Oats and barley are not raised to any extent. Root 

 crops are looking better than usual ; mangels and carrots are raised for 

 feecUng to some extent. Practically speaking, all the corn raised here 

 is for ensilage or sweet corn for the market, and it has come on fast 

 since the rains. 



Shrewsbury (Fred .1. Reed). — Indian corn is in very good condi- 

 tion. The rowen crop will be heavier than was expected, but is still a 

 hght crop. The prospect for late potatoes is not very good; some 

 blight, but no rot as yet. The fruit crop will be light, but of good qual- 

 ity. Oats and barley are about normal crops. Root crops are grown 

 for market to a certain extent. 



Southborough (E. F. Collins). — All kinds of corn are in excellent 

 condition. Rowen will be about half a crop. There will be a very 

 light crop of late potatoes. Apples are about half a crop. Pasturage 

 has improved, and is in fine condition. Root crops are not grown in 

 this section. 



Mendon (J. J. Nutter). — Indian corn is in good condition. Rowen 

 is looking very well. The prospect is that there will be a poor crop of 



