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NORFOLK COUNTY. 



Cohasset (Ellery C. Bates). — Indian corn is about a normal crop. 

 Rowen and fall feed are up to the normal. The usual amount of fall 

 seeding has been done and is in fair condition. Onions are a small 

 crop. Potatoes are about half a crop. The prospect is good for root 

 crops, celery and other late market-garden crops. The fruit crop is 

 about normal. 



Randolph (Rufus A. Thayer). — There is a good yield of corn, both 

 for grain and ensilage. The rowen crop was good, but fall feed is short. 

 Fall seeding is not in good condition, owing to drought, and not as 

 much as usual has been done. Onions are a very good crop. Pota- 

 toes are of good quaUty, but are not up to the average in yield. Turnips 

 and celery are good crops. Apples are a fair crop, but have ripened 

 earlier than usual, on account of drought; pears and grapes are good 

 crops; cranberries are small and a short ci'op. Wells and springs are 

 very low. 



Canton (Edwin V. Kinsley). — Indian corn is more than an average 

 crop. Rowen was a full average crop, but fall feed is very light. The 

 usual amount of fall seeding has been done, but has made no growth, 

 because of drought. Onions are a light crop, below average. Potatoes 

 are of good quality and about half a crop in yield. The prospect is bad 

 for root crops, celery and other late crops, but plentiful and immediate 

 rains will save the situation. Apples, pears and peaches are light 

 crops; grapes and cranberries better than was expected. There is 

 general seeding of white pine, nearly all trees bearing cones. 



Stoughton (Chas. F. Curtis). — Corn is fully up to the average for 

 grain; silo corn is a full crop on low land, but only a three-fourths yield 

 on uplands. The usual amount of fall seeding has been done, but is 

 waiting for rain. There are no onions raised here. Potatoes are a 

 normal crop. Apples are one-sixth of a crop; pears one-eighth; 

 peaches one-tenth; grapes are a very full crop, both wild and culti- 

 vated ; cranberries half a crop. 



Norfolk (A. D. Towne). — Indian corn is more than an average crop. 

 Rowen was about a normal crop and feed in pastures is short. About 

 two-thirds the usual amount of fall seeding has been done, and it is 

 in poor condition, owing to dry weather. Potatoes are of good quality, 

 with perhaps a three-fourths crop. Pears, peaches and grapes are good 

 crops; cranberries light; apples have dropped badly, and are smaller 

 and poorer in quality than usual for the bearing year, about 80 per 

 cent of an average crop. 



Millis (E. F. Ricpiardson). — The corn crop is much better than the 

 average, in fact the best I have ever known. Rowen and fall feed are 

 not quite up to the usual average. The usual amount of fall seeding 

 has been done and is looking well, but needs rain right away. Onions 

 are a good crop. Potatoes are less than an average yield, but are of 



