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begun and there will be about a 60 per cent crop. Early potatoes are 

 looking well. Dry weather has injured market-garden crops and prices 

 are as usual. Dairy products and prices are equal to last year, and 

 prices of cows have advanced. Fruits and berries promise well, •with 

 seasonable rains. 



Lakeville (Nathaniel G. Staples). — Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Corn is in fair condition, with about the usual acreage. 

 Haying has just begun; crop fair on new fields and light on old. There 

 is the usual acreage of early potatoes and they are looking fairly well. 

 The yield of early market-garden crops was light and prices a little 

 better than usual. The quantity and price of dairy products com- 

 pares favorably with former years. Pasturage is light. Strawberries 

 were injured by drought; apples are looking well, where sprayed. 



Mattapoisett (E. C. Stetson). — Cut worms and potato bugs are 

 doing damage. Corn is looking well, but is rather backward; acreage 

 increased. Haying has not begun and the crop will be rather light. 

 The acreage of early potatoes is about the same as usual and the crop 

 promises well. The prospect is very good for market-garden crops, 

 few having been marketed as yet. Dairy products and dairy cows are 

 much the same as usual in supply and price. Recent rains have helped 

 feed in pastures greatly. Strawberries are a very good crop; raspber- 

 ries, currants and gooseberries good. 



BARNSTABLE COUNTY. 



Falmouth (D. R. Wicks). — Cut worms have been very injurious to 

 all kinds of vegetation and potato bugs are plenty. Corn is looking 

 and growing finely, with a much larger acreage than in previous years. 

 Haying has not begun; grass is growing rapidly since the rains and will 

 give perhaps two-thirds of a normal crop. Early potatoes are making 

 a heavy growth of tops and are just in bloom. Most early market- 

 garden crops were fully up to the average in price and yield. Pastur- 

 age is in fairly good condition. Tree fruits will mostly give fair crops 

 and bush fruits are promising. 



MasApee (W. F. Hammond). — Cranberry vine worms and cut 

 worms are doing damage. Indian corn is below the average in condi- 

 tion, but the acreage is above the average. Haying has just begun and 

 there will be a two-thirds crop. The acreage of early potatoes is above 

 the average and is looking well. Early garden crops are above the 

 average in yield and price. The price of dairy cows is above the 

 average. Pasturage is in good condition. The outlook is very good 

 for strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and currants. 



Dennis (Joshua Crowell). — Cut worms are doing damage. The 

 acreage of Indian corn is about as last year and it is rather backward. 

 Haying has just begun and the crop is not over 75 per cent of that of 

 last year. The acreage of early potatoes is less than usual and the out- 

 look for the crop rather unfavorable. The yield of early market- 

 garden crops is rather less than usual and the prices about the same. 



