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cranberries dried up and small. Very few apple trees have been set 

 in the last five years. 



Hopkinton (W. V. Thompson). — Corn is about half a crop. There 

 is no rowen, and but little fall feed. About the usual amount of fall 

 seeding has been done, and it is looking well now. Onions are httle 

 raised, and are not a full crop. There is about three-fourths of a 

 crop of potatoes, of good quality. Root crops, celery and late market- 

 garden crops are little raised. Few apples and quality poor; small 

 crop of pears; no peaches; grapes a small crop; few cranberries 

 raised. Not many apple trees have been set out of recent years. 



Marlborough (E. D. Howe). — Indian corn is about 85 per cent of 

 a normal crop. Rowen and fall feed are decidedly not up to the usual 

 average. The usual amount of fall seeding has been done, and the 

 recent rains are starting it in good shape. Onions are 80 per cent of 

 a full crop. Yield of potatoes 75 per cent, quality 100 per cent. 

 Apples 40 per cent of a full crop; pears 30 per cent; grapes 90 per 

 cent. There have been very few apple trees set out in recent years. 

 Strictly No. 1 apples are very scarce. 



Sudbury (Edgar W. Goodnow). — Indian corn is below the aver- 

 age. Rowen and fall feed are below the usual average. The usual 

 amount of fall seeding has been done, but it is backward at present. 

 The onion crop is about normal. Potatoes are yielding well and are 

 of good quality. The prospect for root crops, celery and other late 

 market-garden crops does not look encouraging. Apples, pears, 

 peaches and grapes are light crops, and cranberries plentiful. There 

 have been from three to four hundred apple trees set out in this locality 

 the past year. 



Stow (Geo. W. Bradley). — Corn is below the normal. Rowen 

 is not very good, but late rains have helped fall feed. Not much 

 seeding has been done so far. Onions are a very poor crop this season. 

 Potatoes are below the average in yield, with some complaint of rot. 

 There is very little prospect for root crops, celery and late market- 

 garden crops. Apples are a poor crop, and pears a fair one. Very 

 few apple trees have been set out of late years, but a good many 

 peach trees have been. 



Dunstable (A. J. Gilson). — Indian corn is below a normal crop. 

 Rowen is far below the usual average, but fall feed has improved 

 since the rains. The usual amount of fall seeding has been done, and 

 is in good condition. Onions are not cultivated to any great extent, 

 but are a normal yield. Potatoes are somewhat below the normal, 

 but are of good quality. Apples are very scarce and poor; pears 

 and peaches none; grapes and cranberries medium yields. Two new 

 orchards of apple trees have been set out by one man, in all about 

 two thousand trees, and they are doing well. 



Billerica (Geo. P. Greenwood). — Rowen and fall feed^are not up 

 to the usual average. But little seeding has been done, and, except 



