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principal forage crops grown. Market-garden crops are not much 

 grown. The prospect is poor for all fruits; apples are dropping badly. 

 Pastures are in fair condition because lightly stocked. Rye and barley 

 are fair average crops; oats below average. 



HAMPDEN COUNTY. 



Chester (C. Z. Inzell). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. Corn 

 is looking well and about one-third of the crop will go into the silo. 

 Hay is about a normal crop in quantity and quality. Japanese millet 

 and corn are the principal forage crops grown. Apples promise a 

 good crop. Pasturage is in fair condition. 



Blandford (Enos W. Boise). — The potato bug is doing some dam- 

 age. The warm weather has brought corn forward so that it is but 

 little behind the normal. The hay crop is a trifle below normal in 

 yield, but of extra quality. Corn, Hungarian grass and Japanese millet 

 are the principal forage crops. Garden crops are looking well. No 

 peaches; other fruits 80 per cent of a full yield. Pastures are short on 

 account of short cropping in the spring. Rye, oats and barley are 

 about normal crops. 



Russell (E. D. Parks). — Potato bugs and currant worms are doing 

 some damage. Indian corn is about two weeks late, but is looking 

 finely and growing fast. Hay is an average crop, some claim more 

 than average. Millet, Hungarian grass and corn are raised for forage 

 and are in very good condition. Potatoes never looked better; very 

 few early potatoes raised. Apples are looking well; small fruit poor 

 on account of the cold, backward spring. Rye, oats and barley are 

 average crops, but a little late. Pastures are in good condition. 



Southvnck (Luzern A. Fowler). — Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Indian corn is looking well considering the late season; few 

 silos in town. Oats, millet and Hungarian grass are the principal 

 forage crops grown, and are in very good condition. But few potatoes 

 have been harvested as yet. There is a fair crop of apples, few pears 

 and no peaches. Pasturage is in very good condition. Rye and oats 

 compare well with former years. The condition of tobacco has greatly 

 improved in the past two weeks. 



Agaivam (J. G. Burt). — The insect proving most troublesome is 

 the potato bug. Corn is a little late ; half the crop will go into the silo. 

 The hay crop is heavy and of good quality. Corn and barley are 

 raised for the silo and are in fair condition. Market-garden crops are 

 in good condition ; potatoes look well, but none have been dug as yet. 

 The prospect is poor for all fruits, owing to the late frost. Pastures are 

 in good condition. Rye, oats and barley are about average crops. 

 Onions and tobacco look well. . » 



West Spring-field (T. A. Rogers). — Potato bugs, the elm leaf beetle 

 and striped squash bugs are doing some damage. Indian corn is 

 looking well and growing fast, but is about ten days late; about half 



