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NORFOLK COUNTY. 



Cohasset (Ellery C. Bates). — Cut worms are doing a little damage. 

 Indian corn is not raised here. Haying has begun, with a good crop in 

 prospect. The acreage of early potatoes is normal, and the promise 

 good. Early market-garden crops have been good in yield and price, 

 and the prospect is good for later ones. Cows and dairy products are 

 above the normal in price. Pastures are in good condition. Straw- 

 berries are the only berry raised for market and are a good crop. 

 There has been plenty of rain, and with the hot weather crops are 

 looking finely. 



Canton (Edwin V. Kinsley) . — Cut worms and potato bugs are 

 doing damage. Corn is looking O. K., with about the average acreage. 

 Haying is well under way, with a full crop. Early potatoes show a full 

 average acreage and promise well. Owing to late frosts, market- 

 garden crops are late; prospect good for later ones; prices average. 

 Quantity of dairy products normal, and prices same as last year; 

 good dairy cows fully as high as the highest ever. Pastures are in 

 very good condition. Apples, pears, cherries and strawberries all 

 promise full crops. A very hea\'y frost on the morning of June 4 

 destroyed all early beans and tomato plants, and seriously damaged 

 early corn and potatoes. 



Norwood (F. A. Fales) . — Cut worms and currant worms are doing 

 damage. Corn is backward, and many fields had to be replanted on 

 account of frost. Haying has just begun, and the crop will be light. 

 The acreage of early potatoes is about 25 per cent less than that of 

 1909; vines now looking well. Market-garden crops are late; yield 

 average, and prices about as last year. The quantity of milk is about 

 the same, with the winter price paid; dairy cows are high. Pastures 

 are in fine condition. Asparagus and strawberries were damaged by 

 frost so that the yields of these crops are about half the normal. 



Walpole (Edward L. Shepard) . — Cut worms, potato bugs, elm 

 leaf beetles and gypsy and brown-tail moths are doing damage. Indian 

 corn is small, for want of warm weather, with about the same acreage 

 as usual. Very little haying has been done, but the prospect is for a 

 good crop. There is about the usual acreage of early potatoes; they 

 suffered somewhat from frost but are now looking well. The yield of 

 market-garden crops is below normal, with prices about the same as 

 usual. ]\Iilk is the same as last year in price; butter somewhat higher; 

 cows the same as for the last few years. Pastures are about in normal 

 condition. Apples are looking well; strawberries are late; blue- 

 berries suffered from frost. 



Foxborough (William E. Perkins). — The acreage of Indian corn 

 is about the same as last year, but the crop is somewhat backward. 

 Haying has begun, and the prospect is good for better than an average 

 crop. The quantity of dairy products is smaller than usual, and the 



