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age is about the same as last year. Haying has begun, with a Ught 

 crop. Butter is lower than usual, but cream and milk are in good 

 demand at last year's prices. Pasturage is in poor condition. Prices 

 for strawberries are running lower than last year. The recent rains 

 have done a great deal of good. 



BRISTOL COUNTY. 



Easion (Wm. N. Howard). — Maggots on turnips and cabbages are 

 especially destructive. Indian corn looks fairly well; acreage about 

 normal. Haying will begin about June 26, crop good on low land, 

 but light on uplands. Acreage and condition of early potatoes about 

 normal. The prospect is good for market-garden crops, with slight 

 damage from hail. Dairy products are the same in quantity and 

 price as for the past few years; dairy cows are high. Pasturage is in 

 very fair condition. Apples are looking well, more care being taken 

 of orchards than in the past; strawberries are doing well. 



Mansfield (E. Jasper Fisher). — Corn is very backward and the 

 acreage is less than last year. Haying has begun and the crop will be 

 very light. Early potatoes are not raised for market. No market- 

 garden crops have been marketed as yet. Dairy products are some- 

 what higher than last j'ears, and good cows very much higher. Pas- 

 turage is very light, except on low ground. Strawberries are very 

 good; prospect for cranberries fine; apples light; pears fairly good 

 and plums good. 



Rehoboth (Adix B. Horton). — Cut worms are doing a great deal 

 of damage. Indian corn is looking well, and the acreage is 90 per 

 cent of the normal. Haying has not begun, and there will not be 

 over a two-thirds crop, owing to drought. Acreage of early potatoes 

 about as usual, and the crop has suffered from drought. Early mar- 

 ket-garden crops are about as usual in jdeld and price. Dairj- prod- 

 ucts are about the same as last year in price, but cows are 10 per cent 

 higher. Pastures are not in very good condition. Peaches will give 

 90 per cent of a full crop; apples are looking well; currants about 

 half a crop; not mam^ pears grown; strawberries about 60 per cent 

 of a crop. 



Berkley (Rollix H. Babbitt) . — Potato bugs and cut worms are 

 doing damage. There is a larger acreage of corn than usual and it is 

 looking well. Haying has not begun as yet and the crop will be light. 

 The acreage of early potatoes is much less than usual, but they are 

 looking well. Early market-garden crops gave fair yields, but prices 

 are low. Dairy products are about the same in price as last 3'ear, but 

 cows are scarce and high. Pastures are feeling the need of rain. 

 There is the prospect of a good crop of apples and pears, with some 

 peaches. 



Swansea (F. G. Arxold). —Tent caterpillars have been plenty and 

 colonies of gypsy moths and l)rown-tail moths have been found. 



