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Summer Spraying. 

 Only 39.2 per cent of the returns stated that summer 

 spraying was practiced, and of these, 55 per cent asserted 

 that only a little was done. The need for spraying in the 

 summer against insects, as well as against plant diseases, is 

 only too readily proven by the excellent results reported 

 where this practice is followed. Would that these object 

 lessons of foresight and wisdom were distributed more thickly 

 over the entire State ! 



NOTES OF FRUIT CROP CORRESPONDENTS. 



[Returned to us July 26.] 

 Berkshire County. 



Washington (J. B. Kext). — There has not been much fruit drop 

 since June 26. Fruit prospect : apples, 50 ; pears, ; plums, 0. 

 Currant crop is below normal on account of frosts; prices, above 

 normal. Plenty of wild raspberries, nearly past for the season. 

 I'rosts early in spring ruined the cherry crop. No fruit diseases 

 and no insects at present. 



Richmond (R. S. Annin, Jr.). — Percentage of fruit drop is 20. 

 Fruit prospect : apples, 50 ; pears, SO ; plums, 10 ; blackberries, good ; 

 blueberries, poor. Currants jdelded 75, as result of frost and 

 drought, but prices have been higher than usual. Raspberry crop 

 has been harvested, and yielded 50; frost and drought reduced the 

 j'ield. Raspberry i^rices were very much higher, some farmers get- 

 ting 25 cents per quart. Cherry crop was normal, and sold for 

 normal prices. Apple scab is about as plentiful as usual, but no 

 other fruit diseases have appeared. Codling moth is doing the most 

 damage. 



Franklin County. 



Colrain (Edgar F. Copeland). — There has been much fruit 

 drop since June 26. Fruit prospect : apples, 45 to 50 ; pears, 70 ; 

 peaches, 75; plums, 40. Currants yielded a normal crop. Rasp- 

 berries set full, but the season has been too dry; the crop is har- 

 vested; prices have ranged 10 per cent above normal. Cherries 

 were a 110 per cent crop; fruit is small where soil is dry. My 

 own apples are uncommonly large. 



Montague (Henry J. Day). — The total per cent of fruit set is 

 25. Fruit prospect: apples, 50; pears, 90; peaches, 90; plums, 50; 

 blackberries and bluebemes, 90. The yield of currants was 90. 

 Raspberry crop not wholly harvested; sold for normal prices. 



