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into the silo. There is an average crop of hay, bat the quality is 

 not quite as good as last year. Millet and barley are our principal 

 forage crops ; millet looks well, barley not all sowed yet. Early 

 potatoes are an excellent crop with good prices. Apples promise 

 a large yield ; pears small ; peaches and plums good ; quinces good ; 

 grapes heavy ; cranberries light. Pasturage is in more than aver- 

 age condition. Rye, oats and barley are very good crops. More 

 hay than usual has been injured by wet weather in curing. 



Medway (Monroe Morse) . — Potato bugs have been quite pi-ev- 

 alent. Corn is backward and is not a good stand ; probably not 

 over one-fourth the crop will be put into the silo. Hay on land 

 in good condition is an average crop, but is light on old fields. 

 Apples, peaches and plums good ; pears light ; grapes fair. Pas- 

 tures have been quite good, but are now getting short. Rye, oat& 

 and barley are average crops. 



BRISTOL COUNTY. 



Easton (H. M. Thompson). — Potato bugs, striped squash bugs 

 and cut worms are doing damage. Indian corn is coming forward 

 splendidly ; practically none will be put into the silo. The hay 

 crop was light and not average in quality owing to drought and 

 miserable weather at haying time. Oats and Hungarian grass are 

 our principal forage crops and they' are looking very well. All 

 market-garden crops are a little backward ; potatoes have grown 

 slowly and will not yield quite as heavily as an average crop ; 

 prices so far well sustained. Good crop of apples expected, al- 

 though not a bumper one ; pears very light ; peaches plentiful ; 

 plums and quinces fair ; cranberries well set. Pasturage is in 

 very fair condition. Rye, oats and barley are good crops. 



Mansfield (Wm. C. Winter). — Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Corn is looking well but is very late ; little, if any, 

 will go into the silo. Quality of the hay crop fair, quantity about 

 two-thirds of an average. Sweet corn and Hungarian grass ^re 

 our principal forage crops. Garden crops generally started 

 poorly, but have yielded fairly well ; potatoes very good, prices 

 above average. Apples, except Baldwins, generally a fairly good 

 crop ; pears fair ; peaches and Japan plums good ; quinces fair ; 

 grapes fair but late. Pasturage is generally good. 



Attleboroiigh (Isaac Alger). — Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Corn is in good condition ; no silos hereabouts. Hay 

 is a full average crop. Corn and the millets are our principal for- 

 age crops ; farmers are growing more of the millets from year to 

 year. Market-garden crops have been good with prices better than 



