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Gardner. — Continued wet weather has retarded the ripening 

 of the corn crop, and has caused undug potatoes to rot badly. 

 The first frost to do damage was on September 30. 



W. E. Knight. 



Hardwick. — Corn on lowlands injured by frost, also stover. 

 Potatoes mostly dug and show a good yield. Some rot. Pas- 

 tures are in good condition. Apples — quality, fine. 



George Manly. 



Holden. — What we feared has come upon us. The frosts of 

 September 6 and 7 caught the corn on low lauds too soft, and 

 the result in many cases a total loss, while on high and sheltered 

 locations no damage from frost until the 30th. A cold, wet, north- 

 east storm of about ten days, winding up, the 26th, with a hurricane, 

 dela} T ed harvesting of all crops. Fruit suffered severely from high 

 winds. The seeming conspiracy of the elements, in many respects, 

 against the farmers' interests is discouraging. Adding taxes, — 

 town, county, state, and national tariff tax, — the burden is too 

 great. 



C. E. Parker. 



Holden. — Very cold and wet. Corn very much injured by the 

 frost of September 7, and the stover nearly spoiled by the frosts 

 and heavy rains. Very few grapes have ripened. Apples are 

 very plenty ; are small, but fair. 



G. S. Graham. 



Lunenburg. — Early frosts injured some crops very much, espe- 

 cially corn and cranberries, and in many places beans and grapes. 

 Grapes do not ripen well even in good locations. Apples are 

 very fair, but not as large as usual. Cranberries almost a total 



failure. 



James Hildreth, 2d. 



Nortliborough. — Farmers are busily engaged in gathering the 

 apple crop. Much of the fruit is wormy and unfit for market. 

 Only a small part of the grape crop is likely to mature, on account 

 of the heavy frosts. Have had very little weather suitable for 

 cutting and curing rowen. 



J. L. Allen. 



