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very few late potatoes, owing to dry weather. There will be a very 

 light yield of all fruits. Pasturage is all dried up. Oats and barley 

 have stopped growing, because of drought. Root crops are grown for 

 market quite largely. 



Auburn (Wm. Gilbert). — Indian corn is a very slim crop. There 

 will be no rowen. Late potatoes are very good, and I have noticed no 

 bUght or rot. Fruit is going to be very scarce. Pastures are all dried 

 up. Oats and barley are very good crops this year. Root crops are 

 not grown around here. 



Blackstone (0. F. Fuller). — The condition of Indian corn is not 

 very good, on account of dry weather. There will not be one-third of 

 a crop of rowen. Potatoes are suffering from dry weather. There will 

 be few apples and pears; cranberries and grapes are good crops. 

 Pasturage is in very poor condition. Very little oats and barley are 

 raised except for fodder. Roots are raised more for market than for 

 stock feeding. 



MIDDLESEX COUNTY. 



Hopkinton (W. V. Thompson). — Indian corn is suffering from the 

 extremely dry weather. There is not any rowen. Unless we have ram 

 soon, the crop of late potatoes will be a failure. There will be but few 

 apples, pears or grapes, and no peaches. Pastures are dried up. Oats 

 and barley, made poor yields. Root crops are not grown for market or 

 for stock feeding. 



Marlborough (E. D. Howe). — Indian corn is curling from dry 

 weather. The prospect for the rowen crop is very poor, not 25 per 

 cent of a full crop. The prospect for potatoes is fair ; no blight as yet. 

 Apples and pears 40 per cent of an average yield ; no peaches ; grapes 

 90 per cent; quinces 10 per cent. Pastures are all burned up. Oats 

 and barley are 90 per cent of average crops. Root crops are not raised 

 for stock feeding or for market. 



Maynard (L. H. Maynard). — Corn is in poor condition, excejDt on 

 low lands, where it Will be an average crop. Rowen will be extremely 

 short, owing to drought. Potatoes will be a short crop, and very small; 

 no bhght or rot as yet. Apples will be short, and are dropping fast; 

 pears and peaches short ; quinces about average ; no cranberries grown. 

 Pastures are suffering for want of rain, and the feed is very short. 

 Oats are nearly all cut green, and the crop was an average one. Root 

 crops are grown mostly for market, and are average yields. Turnips 

 are the only root crop grown to any extent for stock feeding, and the 

 crop will be short. 



Littleton (Geo. W. Sanderson). — Indian corn promises a large 

 crop, but most of it will go into the silo. Rowen is good on new fields, 

 on others not quite normal. Recent dry weather has had an unfavor- 

 able effect on potatoes, the vines on many fields showing blight. 

 Apples poor; pears fair; no peaches; grapes, quinces and cranberries 



