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rain. Oats and barley are fair average crops. Root crops are grown to 

 a limited extent. Crops of all kinds are suffering from lack of rain, and 

 the season is backward. 



Royalston (C. A. Stimson). — Indian corn is looking better than 

 earlier, and will give a fair crop. There will be a short crop of rowen. 

 No potatoes have been dug as yet, and blight has attacked them. 

 There will be short crops of all fruits. The dry weather makes pas- 

 turage poor. Oats and barley are not up to normal crops. Root crops 

 are not grown for stock feeding or for market. 



Westminster (Alden J. Foskett). — On account of the late spring 

 and continued drought corn will be a light crop. There will be but 

 little rowen cut this year. Late potatoes are ripening before they are 

 grown. There will be only a small crop of apples. Pasturage has been 

 very good, but is now drying up badly. Oats and barley are about 

 normal crops. Root crops are not grown for stock feeding or the mar- 

 ket. There was less than the average amount of rainfall in the spring, 

 and it has been a very dry summer. 



Princeton (A. 0. Tylee). — Indian corn is backward and suffering 

 from dry weather, but would be saved by rain. There is no rowen, 

 owing to dry weather. Dry weather is doing great damage to potatoes ; 

 some blight, no rot. There is a small crop of apples; no pears, peaches, 

 grapes, quinces or cranberries. Pasturage is all dried up. Oats are 

 all cut for fodder, and are a fair crop; no barley raised. Root crops 

 are not grown to any extent. 



Sterling (Henry S. Sawyer). — Indian corn is very backward, and 

 many fields are suffering from drought. Rowen is about half a normal 

 crop. Some fields of potatoes are suffering for rain; no rot noticed. 

 The drought is affecting all fruits more or less. Pastures are very dry, 

 and the amount of feed small. Oats and barley are about normal 

 crops. Root crops are grown for home use and for market, but not to 

 any great extent for the latter. 



Bolton (H. F. Haynes). — Corn is late, and on light land nearly 

 ruined by drought. The prospect for rowen is very poor, it is so dry. 

 Late potatoes look well, with no blight or rot, but it is too dry to expect 

 much of a crop. Few apples; no peaches. Pastures are all dried up. 

 Oats and barley are all cut green for hay and forage. Root crops are 

 not much grown. 



Northborough (John K. Mills). — Owing to dry weather, corn has 

 not grown, and unless we have rain soon the crop will be light. There 

 will not be half a crop of rowen. The outlook for potatoes is not very 

 promising; no bhght or rot as yet. There will not be half a crop of 

 any fruit. Pastures are very short, and some of them completely dried 

 up. Oats and barley are good average crops. Roots are grown quite 

 extensively for market, and all culls are used for feeding. 



Shrewsbury (F. J. Reed). — Indian corn is very poor, owing to dry 

 weather. There will be no rowen, as it is all dried up. There will be 



