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good, others hardly worth harvesting. Root crops, celery and other 

 late market-garden crops are making a fair showing. Apples are 

 ripening prematurely ; pears normal ; other fruits a little below normal. • 



HAMPDEN COUNTY. 



Chester (C. Z. Inzell). — Indian corn is about a normal crop. 

 Rowen is better than last year, but has suffered from drought. Pota- 

 toes are less than a normal crop, but are of good quality. Apples are 

 a light crop. 



Russell (E. D. Parks). — Indian corn is fully up to the average. 

 The rowen crop was good, but fall feed has dried up. The usual 

 amount of fall seeding has been done, but it is not doing well, owing 

 to drought. Onions are little raised. Potatoes are of good quality, 

 but rather below the normal in yield; very little rot reported. Pears 

 are very good; few apples; other small fruits about average. 



Agawam (J. G. Burt). — The crop of Indian corn is a good one. 

 Rowen and fall feed are not up to the usual average. The usual amount 

 of fall seeding has been done, but is in need of rain. There is a light 

 crop of onions. Potatoes are a good crop in quantity and are of good 

 quality. The prospect is for light yields of root crops, celery and other 

 late market-garden crops. Fruit of all kinds gives good yields, with 

 the exception of apples. 



West Springfield (N. T. Smith). — The corn crop is about 80 per 

 cent of the normal; stalks large, but ears fewer than usual. Rowen 

 and fall feed have suffered from drought, except on moist land. There 

 has been very little fall seeding done on account of dry weather. 

 Onions are about a fair average crop, with little blight. Potatoes are 

 about a two-thirds crop, very few in the hill, but of good size and 

 fair quality. Root crops, celery and late market-garden crops are 

 looking well at present, but need rain to mature. Apples are nearly 

 a total failure; other fruits good. Late cabbages are not more than 

 half a normal crop, but we have some unusually fine fields of Hubbard 

 squashes. 



East Longmeadow (John L. Davis). — Indian corn is a full average 

 crop and perhaps 10 per cent above. Fall feed is very poor, and there 

 is very little rowen. Not much fall seeding has been done. Onions 

 are a good crop in most cases. Potatoes are about a three-fourths 

 normal crop, but are of poor quality. There is not a good yield of 

 root crops, celery and other late market-garden crops in prospect. 

 Apples dropped badly; peaches average; grapes very plenty; no 

 cranberries raised. 



Chicopee (E. L. Shaw). — Indian corn is a little above a normal 

 crop. Rowen is a good crop, but fall feed is growing short. Less than 

 the usual amount of fall seeding has been done, as the weather has 

 been too dry. Onions are not raised here. Potatoes are a light yield, 



