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Danvers (Chas. H, Preston). — Corn is a good crop locally. Rowen 

 will be a very light crop. There will be a light crop of potatoes; no 

 blight or rot. Apples, pears and peaches are poor crops ; grapes good. 

 Pasturage is in poor condition. Root crops are very httle grown. We 

 seem to have suffered less than most localities from drought, but crops 

 are beginning to feel it. 



NORFOLK COUNTY. 



Cohasset (Ellery C. Bates). — Indian corn is not raised. Rowen 

 will be a very light crop. There will be a small crop of late potatoes; 

 no bhght or rot at present. There will be a small crop of all fruits. 

 Pasturage is in poor condition. Oats and barley are not raised. Root 

 crops are not raised for stock feeding or market. We have had no rain 

 of any account since June 8. 



Stoughton (Charles F. Curtis). — Corn is so badly hurt by the con- 

 tinued drought as to be only one-third of a normal crop. There will be 

 no rowen. Both late and early potatoes are a failure, and show some 

 blight. Apples one-third of a crop; pears 10 per cent; no peaches; 

 grapes 80 per cent; quinces and cranberries half crops. Pasturage is 

 all burned up. Oats and barley are grown as green feed mostly. 

 Farmers are feeding hay to their cows to keep the milk yield from 

 shrinking too much. 



Canton (E. V. Kinsley). — Indian corn is suffering from drought, 

 and will be a short crop. There is no rowen anywhere. Potatoes are 

 very poor, half a crop, perhaps ; no rot as yet. There is a very short 

 crop of all fruits, though some early apples are full. Pastures are 

 dried up, and contain no feed whatever. Oats and barley are less than 

 average crops. Root crops are not grown to any considerable extent. 



Norwood (Frank A. Fales). — Corn is in poor condition, about three 

 weeks late and about half a crop. There will be no rowen. There 

 will be a very small crop of potatoes ; no rot as yet. There will be 25 

 per cent of a crop of apples; very few pears; no peaches or grapes. 

 Pastures are all dried up, and most farmers are feeding at the bam. 

 Early oats did well; late oats and barley very Ught. Root crops are 

 not grown to any extent. 



Millis (E. F. Richardson). — Corn is drying up. There will be no 

 rowen. Potatoes will be a very light crop. There will be very light 

 yields of all fruits. Pasturage is all dried up. Early oats and barley 

 good; late crops minus. Roots crop are little raised this year. 



Franklin (C. M. Allen). — The weather is too dry for a full crop of 

 Indian corn. There will not be more than one-fourth of an average 

 crop of rowen. There wiU probably be a three-fourths crop of potatoes. 

 There are very few apples; few pears; no peaches; grapes half a crop. 

 Pasturage is all dried up. Oats and barley are average crops. Root 

 crops are little grown, either for stock feeding or for market. 



