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dition, and fall feed will be above that of the average season. 

 Oats and barley seem to have made a good growth. The weather 

 continues so rainy that our farmers cannot harvest their grain. 



Lanesborough (Scott Jenks). — Indian corn is very backward. 

 Rowen promises to be a good crop. Blight and rot is quite gen- 

 eral on our potatoes. Apples will be a fair crop ; pears a medium 

 crop ; peaches a good crop ; no cranberries. Pasturage is in good 

 condition. Oats and barley are fair to good crops ; oats some- 

 what lodged. 



Savoy (W. W. Burnett). — Corn is in very poor condition, 

 small and uneven, and more than a month late. Rowen will be 

 more than an average crop, compared with former years. Pota- 

 toes are looking well ; early potatoes have shown blight, and the 

 tubers are rotting. Apples are about a normal crop ; other fruits 

 little cultivated. Pasturage is in better than average condition, 

 compared with former years. Oats and barley are fully average 

 crops. Corn is so very backward it seems impossible for any of it 

 to ripen. 



Netv Ashford (Elihu Ingraham). — Indian corn is rather back- 

 ward, but is coming along finely now. There will be a fair crop 

 of rowen, and all meadows that have been mowed are looking fine. 

 Late potatoes will be a very light crop, owing to blight and rot. 

 Apples will be a fair crop ; no other fruits raised. Pastures never 

 looked better at this time of the year. Oats are a heavy crop ; not 

 much barley raised. 



Williamstown (S. A. Hickox). — Corn shows a fair stand, but 

 is three weeks late. Rowen promises a good crop, although some 

 of the first crop is still standing. Potatoes promised a large crop, 

 but half of them have rotted, and blight is very prevalent. Apples 

 will be a half crop in this section. Pasturage is in fine condition. 

 Oats are well filled out, and some fields are yielding as high as 65 

 bushels to the acre. It rains almost every day, and there is much 

 hay to cut yet. Oats are lodging in the fields, waiting for weather 

 to harvest them. 



FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Monroe (D. H. Sherman). — Indian corn is very late. Rowen 

 promises to be an average crop. Blight struck most fields of pota- 

 toes about August 1, and since that date from one-fourth to one- 

 half of early planted potatoes have rotted in the fields. Apples 

 fair ; a few pears ; some grapes and cranberries. Pasturage is in 

 very good condition. Oats and barley are only raised for hay and 

 green feed. 



Haivley (C. C. Fuller) . — Indian corn is late and poor. Rowen 



