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small. Have observed considerable scab on potatoes. Straw- 

 berries were extra, but the later small fruits suffered from drought. 

 Trespassers without end, but little thieving; gunners singly, in 

 squads and platoons. The worst trespassers of all are dogs, 

 which in their efforts to get the wood-chucks do more damage 

 than the wood-chucks can possibly ; and if by any rare chance 

 they can capture a small chuck, they summon their friends, choose 

 the best piece of grass and daily gather to eat, fight and break 

 down grass. The damage done in tearing down stone walls is 

 quite a serious matter, as the cattle are apt to find the openings 



before we do. 



G. W. Adams. 



FRANKLIN COUNTY. 

 Bernardston. — An unusually fine haying season with a large 

 crop secured. The rowen crop has had a bad set-back by the 

 drought. Apples are few and inferior. No reports of rot or scab 

 in potatoes. Small fruits are not plenty and prices are high. 

 Trespassers are numerous, but not much stealing is reported. 

 Farmers are troubled by hunters, fishermen and berry-pickers, 

 in their season, damaging fences and crops. About one-half of 

 the streams in town are protected by a club composed of the land- 

 owners. 



R. H. CUSHMAN. 



Deerfield. — The hay crop is a good average in quantity and the 

 quality is good. Potatoes have suffered from the dry weather, 

 but the early ones are yielding fairly well, except on very dry 

 land. Corn is growing rapidly with a fair prospect of a good 

 crop. Oats that were sowed early are almost an entire failure. 

 Tobacco is looking well ; and, if the weather continues good, 

 there will be a fine crop. Not many apples. To some extent 

 parties hunting and fishing go through the growing crops and do 

 some damage. 



Charles Jones. 



East Charlemont. — A very large hay crop and the weather 

 favorable for securing it. The apple crop is a i)artial failure ; 

 more of the winter than of the fall varieties. No rot in potatoes ; 

 some scab. Small fruits satisfactory in price but not in yield. 

 The drought which threatened destruction to crops and all vegeta- 

 tion has come to an end. The gentle rain of the 2oth and 26th 

 has thoroughly soaked the ground. The temperature has been 

 below the average. On the morning of the 21st there was a frost 



