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is removed from tlie ground in nearly all cases; clean culture is 

 practiced by the new men; clover is seldom used as a cover crop, 

 grass being used as a mulch. The most damage is being done by the 

 gypsy moth and San Jose scale. Forty per cent of the strawberry 

 crop was damaged by frost; in my opinion, the prices of straw- 

 berries have been satisfactory. Summer spraying for sooty fungus 

 is iiot being practiced. 



Newbury (Elbridge Noyes). — There has been no noticeable dam- 

 age by frosts. The setting of tree fruits was very poor; there has 

 been much drop. Crop prospect: apple and plum, poor; j^ear and 

 cherry, fair; peach and currant, good. Clean culture is the general 

 method practiced; legumes are planted to some extent. The gypsy 

 and brown-tail moths are doing the most damage. 



Norfolk County. 



Medway (Monroe Morse). — Tree fruits have not set well; the 

 peach drop has been very heavy. Apples and cherries promise a 

 good crop; peaches, fair. Legumes are planted quite extensively; 

 oats, barley and rye are also used as cover crops. Peaches failed 

 to set, and the cold weather blighted the embryo fruits; the drop 

 has been unusually large. 



Westwood (Ingram I. Margeson). — Apples, pears, peaches, 

 plums, sweet cherries and currants were damaged 25 per cent by 

 frosts. Not more than one-quarter of the tree fruits, including 

 peach, set well; the drop of peaches and cherries has been very 

 heavy. Fruit crop prospect: apple, 25; pear, 25; peach, 100; 

 plum, 75 ; cherry, 75 ; currant, 75 ; raspberry and blackberry, 75 ; 

 blueberry, 100. Orchards do best under cultivation; sod mulch is 

 l^raeticed and grass is left aroimd the trees, which is better than 

 removal of hay; clean culture is the method used; legumes are not 

 much planted; general truck crops used in young orchards; some 

 buckwheat is also used. Tent caterpillar, gypsy and brown-l^ail 

 moths and the San Jose scale are doing most damage; have not 

 noticed any fire blight this summer. The strawbei'ry crop was in- 

 jured 50 per cent by frost ; prices have been very satisfactory, 

 probably 25 per cent better than 1912. No summer s]>raying for 

 fruit diseases is practiced. Fruit genei'ally looks well. Peaches are 

 unusually large for this season of the year; currants are of good 

 size, although there is not a great quantity on the bushes. 



Bristol County. 

 South Easton (Wilmarth P. Hov^ard). — Frost has damaged 

 fruit as follows: peaches, 50; plums, 85; small fruits, 25; most of 

 the damage was done during the last week of May. Tree fruits set 



