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large fruits. We are too near salt water to have our apples keep 

 well, though trees grow well. 



Mashpee (W. F. Hammond). — Cut worms and crauberrj-'Vine 

 worms are doing damage. Corn is aboi;t an average crop; none 

 raised for the silo. Hay is about half a crop of good quality. 

 Forage crops are below the average in condition. Market-garden 

 crops are below the average in yield, but above in price. There will 

 be a one-third crop of apples, pears and grapes, and a two-thirds 

 crop of cranberries. Pasturage is about average. Rye and oats 

 are below the average both as grain and forage. About two acres 

 of new apple orchard have been set out. 



Barnstable (John Bursley). — Cranberry insects are doing dam- 

 age. Corn is very small and rolling badly on light ground; none 

 grown for ensilage. Hay was about two-thirds of a normal crop 

 and of good quality when cut at the proper time. Less than the 

 usual amount of forage crops have been put in ; the ground is badly 

 baked and it is difficult to plough. Potatoes and pease are one- 

 fourth crops and prices are doubled. Grapes and plums look well; 

 cranberries growing less each day ; other fruits very light. Pasturage 

 is entirely gone. Oats for forage were very good crops. 



Dennis (Joshua Crowell). — Cranberry-vine worms are doing 

 damage. Indian corn is in good condition ; very little is grown for 

 ensilage, but some for green fodder. Hay is a three-fourths crop of 

 good quality. Forage crops are in good condition. Market-garden 

 crops are not up to the average in yield, prices the same as usual. 

 Apples and pears about half crops ; grapes good ; cranbeiries 

 have suffered from hot, dry weather and the prospect is not as 

 favorable as three weeks ago. Pasturage is very short, owing to 

 drought. Some few apple trees have been set here and there, but 

 no orchards. 



Brewster- (Thomas D. Sears).- — -Cranberry worms are doing- 

 much damage. Corn is looking well; very little is grown for en- 

 silage. The hay crop was small compared with former years and 

 the quality about as usual. Very few forage crops are being raised. 

 On account of the dry weather market-garden crops are small com- 

 pared with former years, especially potatoes, and the prices are high. 

 There will be a small crop of apples, pears, cranberries and other 

 fruit. Pasturage is very poor on account of dry weather. Rye, 

 oats and barley are about average crops. Very few apple trees have 

 been set out this year. 



Wellfleet (E. S. Jacobs). — Potato bugs are doing damage. Very 

 little Indian corn is grown here and there are no silos. Hay was a 

 good crop above average quality. Forage crops are about the 

 same as usual in acreage and in good condition. There will be very 

 small yields of all kinds of market truck, especially potatoes. Ap- 



