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per quart. These prices show increases of 2 cents per can and 1 

 cent per quart. Pasturage is in 75 per cent condition. The fruit 

 outlook is: apples, 75; pears, 50; strawberries, 80; currants, 90. 

 The hay crop on old land was injured by the dry spell in 1912. 

 The season is two to three weeks late on account of the cold, wet 

 spring. 



Wrentham (Jeremiah A. Cobb). — On trees the elm-leaf beetle 

 is doing the most damage, while crops are suffering principally from 

 the cutworms and Colorado beetle. Indian corn is late, just coming 

 up; the acreage is normal. Hajdng was begun from a week to ten 

 days earlier than usual; the prospect offered is for a 100 per cent 

 crop. In family gardens potatoes are looking well. Dairy cows 

 continue in the same supply, and milk and cream have not changed 

 within the past year. Milk wholesales for 38 to 40 cents per can, 

 while the retailers get 8 cents per quart. These prices are the same 

 as last year. Condition of pastures is 100. The fruit outlook is: 

 apples, 75 to 80; pears, 100 to 125; peaches, 300 to 400, — best in 

 years; plums, 25 to 35; strawberries, 75; currants, 100; gooseberi-ies 

 were frozen and there are none; raspberries and blackberries, 100. 

 The season is two weeks late for cultivated crops, but the hay crop 

 is early. 



Foxhorough (Wm. E. Perkins). — The condition of corn is 75. 

 The acreage is 80. Haying has commenced, with an 80 per cent 

 prospect. The original number of cows is kept. Milk wholesales 

 for 45 cents per can and retails for 8 cents per quart, which prices 

 are the same as last year. Pastures are in normal condition. The 

 fruit outlook is: apples, pears and peaches, 100; plums, 50; straw- 

 berries, 75; other small fruits, 100. The spring has been rather 

 cold and backward and ci^ops are not up to the normal. An unusual 

 number of cutworms have damaged garden crops in most places. 



Cohasset (Ellery C. Bates). — The worst insect pest this season 

 has been the tent caterpillar. Haying has begun, and that cut indi- 

 cates a 75 to 85 per cent crop. The acreage of and prospect for 

 early potatoes are 100. In both yield and price early market-garden 

 crops are 100, Avhile a normal prospect is offered for those not har- 

 vested. Dairy cows, milk and cream are in normal supply. Milk 

 brings 45 cents per can at wholesale and 8 to 10 cents per quart 

 retail, which are the normal prices. Pastures are in 100 per cent 

 condition. The fruit outlook is: apples, pears and strawberries, 50. 



Bristol County. 



Mansfield (E. Jasper Fisher). — Cutworms and potato beetles 



seem to be doing the gi'eatest amount of damage. The Indian corn 



acreage has been decreased 25 per cent, while the crop is in only 



70 per cent condition. Very little haying has been done as yet; 



