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ditions of market-garden crops very good; yield and prices compare 

 well with former 3'ears. Apples are scarce; there will be a few pears; 

 cranberries average; peaches and plums light. Feed in pastures is 

 getting short on accovmt of dry weather. Rye, oats and barley are 

 little raised. Veiy little has been done in setting out fruit trees of 

 any kind, this year or last. 



Falmouth (D. R. Wicks). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 

 Corn is looking well and making good growth; not more than ten per 

 cent of the crop is grown for ensilage. The hay crop was 75 per cent of 

 the normal in quantity and of fair quality. Oats, corn and millet are 

 our principal forage crops; oats have rusted; corn and millet in good 

 condition. Potatoes are showing blight and promise poorly. Apples 

 are a failure; pears good; peaches, plums and quinces a failure; 

 grapes and cranberries fair. Pasturage is getting short. Rye and 

 barley are about normal crops, but oats have rusted. Verj'- few apple 

 trees have been set here for the past two years. Large fruit growing 

 here is, I think, a thing of the past. I have been setting trees for many 

 years and have many different varieties, both dwarf and standard, but 

 I get no fruit, though there was plenty of good fruit grown here 70 

 years ago. 



Mashpee (W. F. Hammond). — Potato bugs, cut worms and cran- 

 berry vine worms are doing damage. Indian corn is above the average 

 in condition. Hay was above an average crop of good quality. Oats 

 and wheat are being raised for forage. Market-garden crops are look- 

 ing well, about average in price and yield. Apples, pears and plums 

 w'ill be about a failure; cranberries two-thirds of a normal crop. Pas- 

 turage is above the average in condition. Rye and oats are good 

 crops, both as grain and forage. No new orchards have been started. 



Dennis (Joshua Crowell) . — The elm-leaf beetle is the only insect 

 at all troublesome at present. Indian corn is in good condition and 

 little grown for ensilage. Hay was an average crop of good quality. 

 Corn is our principal forage crop. Market-garden crops are in fair 

 condition; potatoes look well; yield and prices about as last year. 

 Apples and pears are not as good as last year; cranberries about an 

 average crop. Pasturage is in good condition for the time of year. 

 Rye, oats and barley are very little grown. No new apple orchards 

 have been set out recently. All farm crops are looking fairly well at 

 present. 



Brewster (Thomas D. Sears). — Cranberry vine worms are the only 

 insects doing damage at present. Corn is looking well and about one- 

 third of the crop is grown for the silo. There is a large crop of hay of 

 fhie quality. Forage crops are not much raised here. Market-gardens 

 are looking well; yield and prices compare favorably with former 

 years. The prospect for apples is poor; other fruits, including cran- 

 berries, fairly good. Owing to dry weather pasturage is in poor con- 

 dition. The outlook for grain crops is fairly good. About four acres 

 of apple orchard have been set out during the past year. 



