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few harvested. There will be a fair crop of apples and plums 

 and grapes are heavily set. There is plenty of feed in the pas- 

 tures, but owing to excess of moisture it is not very nourishing. 



Northfield (T. R. Callendar). Potato bugs are fewer than for 

 many years. Indian corn is very backward, certainly three weeks 

 behind the average ; not over 5 per cent of the crop will go into 

 the silo. The hay crop is below the average in both quantity and 

 quality. Corn and oats, with a small amount of barley, are raised 

 to help out the pastures ; oats and barley are looking well. Pota- 

 toes give promise of an unusual yield except on low ground. 

 Apples will be about an average crop and peaches promise a good 

 yield. Pasturage is in good condition. Grain crops are all above 

 the average both as grain and forage. 



New Salem (Daniel Ballard). — Little trouble from insects. 

 Corn is very backward ; only a small proportion will go into the 

 silo. Hay has improved of late and will be about an average crop. 

 Peas and oats, Hungarian grass and fodder corn are our principal 

 forage crops ; more are raised than usual, fodder corn backward. 

 Potatoes are looking finely but few have been dug as yet. Apples 

 are abundant ; few pears, peaches and plums ; prospect for grapes 

 good. Pastures are fresh and growing. Rye, oats and barley 

 are fair average crops. 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY. 



Greemuich (Wm. S. Douglas). — Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Indian corn is backward. The hay crop is light in quan- 

 tity', but of fair quality. Oats are our principal forage crop and 

 are in good condition. Market-garden crops are in good condition 

 and potatoes promise well. There is not much prospect of a good 

 fruit crop. Pastures are in good condition. 



Belchertoivn (H. C. West). — Potato bugs are doing some dam- 

 age. Corn is in fairly good condition ; very little will go into the 

 silo. The long spell of wet weather has brought the hay crop up 

 to a full average. Fodder corn, oats, millet and barley are our 

 principal forage crops and all are coming forward fairly well. 

 Market-garden crops are a full average ; early potatoes fine, prices 

 a little low. Pasturage is short. Apples and peaches average ; 

 pears fair ; no plums ; grapes good ; few quinces. Rye, oats and 

 barley are full average crops. 



Amherst (Wm. P. Brooks). — Potato bugs fewer than usual; 

 onion maggots and elm leaf beetles also doing damage. Indian 

 corn is very backward, except on light lands ; about half the crop 

 goes into the silo. Hay made a heavy yield on all good fields ; 



