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crop. Market-garden crops are good and command good prices. 

 Pasturage is in good condition. Rye, oats and barley are all cut 

 for hay. 



Holden (Geo. S. Graham). — Potato bugs and cut worms are 

 plentiful, but not unusually troublesome. Corn is very small and 

 backward and it hardly looks now as if any of it would ripen. 

 Hay is nearly an average as to quantity but much of it is un- 

 secured. Corn, oats and Japanese millet ai*e raised in about the 

 usual quantities as forage crops. Potatoes look fairly well, but 

 seem to be turning yellow or blighting in some cases. Fruit of all 

 kinds seems to be doing well, though many Baldwin apple trees 

 are not bearing at all. Pastures are short but the late rains may 

 improve them. Rye was a good crop ; oats and barley not as 

 heavy as in many years. 



Southboroxigh (E. F. Collins). — Indian corn is small but is of 

 good stand and color. The hay crop was 90 per cent in yield and 

 of good quality and the second crop is well started. Large fields 

 of sweet corn have been planted for fodder. Market-garden crops 

 are in good condition, but a little late ; potatoes promise a good 

 yield. Apples about a one-third crop ; peaches a good crop of 

 good quality. Pastures are in average condition. 



Millbury (Herbert McCracken) . — Potato bugs are doing 

 some damage. Indian corn is backward ; the greater part of the 

 crop will go into the silo. Hay is fully up to the average in quan- 

 tity and of extra quality. Corn, barley and millet are the principal 

 forage crops grown ; condition good and about the same amount 

 as usual raised. Market-garden crops are in fair condition ; pota- 

 toes have not been harvested to any extent. The fruit crop 

 promises to be good but apples are dropping badly. Pasturage is 

 in good condition. There will be heavy crops of rye, oats and 

 barley. 



Oxford (D. M. Howe). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Corn is backward, three-fourths of the crop will go into the silo. 

 The hay crop is heavy on good farms and about as usual on poor 

 land. Hungarian grass and millet are the principal forage crops 

 grown and the acreage is about the same as usual. Apples good ; 

 pears and peaches few; grapes good. Rye, oats and barley are 

 average crops. Haying is well under way, but large quantities 

 were caught out and were down for some time. 



Mendon (J. J. Nutter). — Potato bugs and squash bugs are 

 doing some damage. Corn is backward ; only a small proportion 

 of the crop goes into the silo. The quality of the hay crop is good ■ 

 if cured well, but it is not average in quantity. Corn is the prin- 

 cipal forage crop and is in very good condition for that purpose. 



