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orchards are being very extensively planted, — mostly apples, with 

 some peaches and pears. One hundred per cent of peach and plum 

 buds wintered. Apples showed a bloom of 60; pears, 110. Tent 

 caterpillars, brown-tail and gypsy moths are doing the most damage. 

 Spraying is practiced for San Jose scale, codling moth and other 

 fruit pests. Prospects for small-fruit crop are: currants, 100 per 

 cent; blackberries and raspberries are just budding, but look fine. 

 Generally speaking, markets are good, and most of the marketing is 

 done through commission houses. In some sections strawberries, 

 apples and peaches were damaged by frosts. 



New Braintree (Charles D. Sage). — Pears have done well in this 

 locality, but apples do best; last season pear blight did serious dam- 

 age to the trees. Available land for fruit culture is plenteous, but 

 only a few apple orchards are being planted. Fruit buds wintered 

 as follows : plums, 85 ; cherries, 75. Apples showed a bloom of 100 ; 

 peai's, 75. Tent caterpillars are numerous. No spraying is done for 

 San Jose scale, and very little for the codling moth and other fruit 

 pests. Not many small fruits gTown. This is a good fruit country^ 

 but little is done with it, most of the farmers being satisfied with 

 what nature gives them. Have observed but little frost damage. 



Holden (Nathan W. Sanbork). — Apples and pears do best in 

 this vicinity. Available fruit land is plenteous, and new orchards 

 are being planted to a moderate extent, largely apple orchards and 

 some pears. Fruit buds wintered as follows: peach, 25; plum, 50; 

 cherry, 90. Apples showed a bloom of 100; pears, 75. The tent 

 caterpillar is doing the most damage. Spraying, to a small extent, 

 is practiced for San Jose scale, also for codling moth and other finiit 

 pests. Markets are good, 75 per cent of marketing being direct to 

 consumer and 25 per cent through commission houses. Strawberries 

 and apples have been injured by frosts. 



Westhorough (Hov^'ard P. Gilmore). — Apples, peaches, pears, 

 currants and raspberries do best in this locality. There is plenty of 

 available land for fruit culture. Fifteen hundred trees have been 

 planted, — peaches and apples. Fruit buds winter<?d as follows : 

 peach, 75; plum and cherry, 80 to 90. The bud moth, tent eater- 

 pillar, brown-tail and codling moths and scale are most troublesome. 

 On 75 per cent of the farms spraying for San Jose scale and codling 

 moth and other pests is practiced. The prospects for small fruit 

 are: strawberries, 25; raspberries, 80 to 100. Markets are fair, some 

 marketing being done through local stores, surplus, through com- 

 mission houses. No noticeable damage by frosts. 



Dudley (I. Harold Easterbrook). — In this locality apples, pears, 

 strawberries, raspberries and blackberries do best. Available land 

 for fruit culture is plenteous, but only in a small way are new 

 orchards being planted, these being apple, peach, cherrv^, plum and 

 small-fruit orchards. Fifty per cent of peach buds wintered and 80 



