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6. How do the quantity and price of dairy products and 

 the supply and price of dairy cows compare with former 

 years ? 



7. What is the condition of pasturage in your locality? 



8. What is the outlook for such fruits and berries as are 

 grown for market, naming them ? 



Returns were received from 145 correspondents, and from 

 these the following summary has been compiled : — 



Insects. 

 Insects do not appear to be unusually numerous or in- 

 jurious. The usual variety are reported as present. Cut 

 worms and plant lice appear to be rather more troublesome 

 than usual, while tent caterpillars and canker worms are 

 rather less so. Wire worms are also mentioned as doing 

 considerable damage in corn fields in some cases. Gypsy 

 and brown-tail moth caterpillars are reported by a steadily 

 increasing number of correspondents each year. Other in- 

 sects mentioned are potato bugs, cabbage worms, squash bugs, 

 striped cucumber beetles, onion maggots, currant worms, 

 white grubs, rose bugs, flea beetles, spittle insects, cranberry 

 insects and the San Jose scale. 



Indian Cokn. 

 The great increase in the acreage of field corn indicated 

 by the returns for May will hardly be realized, owing to 

 failure of germination in some cases and in others to fields 

 intended for corn having been planted to other crops, be- 

 cause of the delay caused by the continued wet weather. 

 IS^evertheless, the reports indicate that the acreage will be 

 considerably increased over any previous year, more than 

 half of the correspondents reporting an increase, ranging 

 from " slight " to over 50 per cent. The reports of de- 

 creased acreage are so few that they may be disregarded in 

 making estimates for the State as a whole. The crop is 

 very uneven, having to be replanted in many cases, either 

 in whole or in part, and has suffered from wire worms in 

 some sections, making the stand rather poor as a whole. 



