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Southampton (C. B. Lyman). — Corn has made a good growth, but on 

 many fields is rolhng for want of moisture. Not much rowen will be 

 cut unless we have rain soon. Late potatoes are looking fairly well, 

 but are beginning to suffer for want of rain. There is a normal acreage 

 of tobacco, but, like all crops, it needs rain. Apples will give a small 

 yield. Pastures are very dry. But few oats grown, and no barley. 

 Root crops are little grown. 



Goshen ( Alvan Barrus) . — First cold and wet weather and then hot 

 and very dry weather make the prospects for the corn crop dubious. 

 Rowen is not very promising. There is no blight on potatoes, but there 

 will not be more than half a crop, because of drought. There will be 

 far from a full crop of fruit. Pastures are drying up, as a rule. Oats 

 and barley are fair average crops. Root crops are not extensively 

 raised. The streams have never been so low as at present. 



Middlefield (John T. Bryan). — Indian corn is about three w^eks 

 late, but doing w^ell at present. The row^n crop will be light, owing to 

 dry weather. Late potatoes are free from blight. There are no pears, 

 but other fruits are abundant. Pastures are suffering from drought. 

 Oats and barley are full crops. Very few roots crop are grown. 



HAMPDEN COUNTY. 



Blandford (Enos W. Boise). — Corn is in poor condition, as the 

 leaves are curling and the crop drying up. No rowen is growing on 

 even early cut land. Potatoes are still green, but the yield will be very 

 light. Some orchards show a fair amount of apples on the trees. Pas- 

 tures are all short, and there is a shortage of water for stock in many 

 of them. Oats and barley are 80 per cent of normal crops. Root crops 

 are grown to but small extent. Stock in pastures must soon be fed 

 from the barn. 



Southvnck (Luzerne A. Fowler). — Indian corn has been injured 

 by drought. There will be little or no rowen. Potatoes are ruined by 

 dry weather, as the rain came too late to save them. Hail and dry 

 weather have injured tobacco 50 per cent. Fruit is almost a failure. 

 Pasturage is very dry. The rain of the 24th will benefit late tobacco 

 and new-seeded fields. Tobacco cutting has begun. Root crops are 

 not grown to any extent, and have suffered with other crops from want 

 of rain. 



West Springfield (N. T. Smith). — Corn is in good condition oii the 

 river lands, but late on the uplands and badly dried up. There is no 

 rowen except on the river lands and low-lying, moist fields, and it is 

 very Ught on these. There is a very discouraging prospect for potatoes ; 

 no rot, but some bhght. There is a small increase in the acreage of 

 tobacco, but it is below average in condition, and late. Very few 

 apples and pears ; no peaches ; grapes good ; no quinces. Pasturage is 

 entirely dried up except on some low lands, and is very short there. 

 Oats and barley are grown for fodder only, and arc about 80 per cent of 



