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crop of fine quality. Oats, millet and fodder corn are raised for forage 

 and are all looking well. All garden crops are in good condition; 

 potatoes are fully up to the average. Apples promise a fair yield. 

 Pasturage is good for the time of year, but rain is needed on some hill 

 pastures. Rye and oats are rather better than usual. All crops are 

 late but the fine weather has been pushing them fast. 



Wendell (N. D. Plumb). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Indian corn is very backward, but is stocky and growing fast; about 

 one-fourth the crop is raised for ensilage. The quality of the hay crop 

 is good, but the yield is below normal. Barley, oats and corn are 

 raised for forage and are all in fine condition. Potatoes are ten days 

 later than usual, but are looking well; none harvested yet. Pastures 

 are in the best condition for years. Rye, oats and barley are not 

 raised for grain, very promising as forage crops. 



New Salem (Daniel Ballard) . — Potato bugs, rose bugs and 

 striped squash bugs are doing some damage. Corn is backward, but is 

 looking well and growing finely since the warm weather; only a small 

 part is raised for ensilage. The hay crop is good in both quantity and 

 quality. Corn, oats and Hungarian grass are the forage crops grown 

 and are in fair condition. But little done in market-gardening; no 

 potatoes harvested. There will be a light crop of fruit, especially 

 apples, pears and peaches. Pasturage is holding out well. Rye, oats 

 and barley are fair average crops. 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY. 



Ware (J. H. Fletcher). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Indian corn is late, but is looking nicely ; not much will go into the silo. 

 Hay is very good on well cared for land. Corn, barley and millet 

 are the crops raised for forage and they are looking well. Market- 

 garden crops are about average in yield and price. There will not be a 

 very good crop of apples. Pasturage is in good condition just now. 

 Rye, oats and barley are about average crops. 



Greenwich (Walter H. Glazier). — Potato bugs and rose bugs are 

 plentiful. Indian corn is looking well and growing rapidly; little, if 

 any, will be put into the silo. There is a large crop of hay of good 

 quality. There are small amounts of millet and Hungarian grass 

 grown for forage, and they are looking well. Potatoes are doing well. 

 Fruit is little grown. Pasturage is in excellent condition. Rye, oats 

 and barle}^ are little grown. Much hay is still uncut, as farmers were 

 late in starting. 



Pelham (John L. Brewer). — Potato bugs are doing some damage, 

 and they have not been as plentiful and troublesome as some years. 

 Corn is somewhat late, but of excellent color; only a small part will go 

 into the silo. Sweet corn, millet, barley and oats are the principal 

 forage crops raised. Potato vines never looked better; not many ripe 

 as yet. Most fruit suffered from frosts; strawberries have been a fair 



