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BRISTOL COUNTY. 



Attleborough (Isaac Alger). — Indian com is in poor condition, 

 owing to dry weather. There will be no rowen. The potato crop will 

 be very small unless we have rain soon. There are no apples, pears or 

 peaches, and only small crops of quinces, grapes and cranberries. Pas- 

 turage is very poor, all dried up. Oats and barley are average crops. 

 Root crops are grown for stock feeding, but not very largely for market. 



Rehoboth (Adin B. Horton). — Corn is not over half a crop. There 

 is no rowen. Potatoes promise about half a crop; no blight as yet. 

 Apples and pears are not over one-fourth crops; no peaches; grapes 

 half a crop. There is hardly any feed in the pastures. Oats are about 

 a three-fourths crop; no barley grown. There is a small amount of 

 roots raised for feeding stock, and they are raised to a considerable 

 extent for market. 



Seekonk (John W. Peck). — Most fields of corn have rolled badly, 

 and even with rain the prospect is that the crop is too backward to 

 mature. On some very low lands there will be one-third of a crop of 

 rowen. There will be a small yield of potatoes, owing to drought ; no 

 blight. Apples, peaches and quinces very scarce and poor; pears, 

 grapes and cranberries half crops. Pasturage on high lands is all 

 burned up. Oats and barley are good crops. Some mangels are 

 raised for feeding to cattle and hogs. Late beets, French turnips, car- 

 rots and parsnips have been grown for market to some extent. Early 

 root crops were good in quantity and price ; late ones nearly a complete 

 failure, owing to severe drought. 



Berkley (Rollin H. Babbitt). — Indian corn is suffering severely 

 for want of rain. There will be very little if any rowen in this locality. 

 The outlook is for a hght crop of potatoes; tubers small and tops dying. 

 Apples are a light crop; pears few; no peaches; quinces few; cran- 

 berries many, but small. Pasturage is all drying up. Oats and barley 

 are less than average crops. Root crops are not much raised for stock 

 feeding, being mostly used for market. Hay will be high, as we have no 

 second crop, and the weather has been mifavorable for sowing forage 

 crops. 



Swansea (F. G. Arnold). — Much corn will not ear, as we have had 

 no rain for weeks. No rowen will be cut, owing to dry weather. There 

 is no rot on potatoes, but the crop will be Hght, on accoimt of drought. 

 There are few apples; no peaches and few grapes. Pastures are all 

 dried up, and farmers are feeding hay. Oats were an average crop, but 

 mostly cut for feed. Root crops are not grown to any extent; a few 

 beets and turnips only. 



Dartmouth (L. T. Davis). — Indian corn is growing slowly, but with 

 no frost for a month will ripen well. There is no prospect of any 

 amount of rowen. Potatoes look fairly well, with little sign of Wight. 

 There will be a light yield of aU fruits. Pastures are very poor, and 



