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doing damage are the gTeen aphids, borers and San Jose scale. 

 Very little fruit raised except peaches and apples. 



Brimfield (E. S. Butterfield ) . — Total drop is 50 per cent of 

 fruit set. Fruit prospect: apples, 70; pears, 10; early peaches, 

 25; late peaches, 10; blackberries and bluebemes, 100. Currant 

 crop was normal, but none were raised for market. Raspberries 

 were only one-half the usual crop, as late frosts and drought in- 

 jured them; none raised for market. Slight infestation by peach 

 leaf-curl. The codling moth, curculio and ajDple and peach tree 

 borers are proving most troublesome. We are still free from 

 brown-tail and gypsy moths. Blueberries and blackberries, while 

 good crops, have suffered from drought and are, therefore, small. 



Worcester County. 



Warren (A. N. Tuttle). — Of fruit set there has been a 50 per 

 cent drop. Fruit pi-ospect: apples, 75; pears, 100; peaches, 50; 

 plums, 25. Apple scab is bad in some localities, and there is a little 

 fire blight; veiy little peach leaf -curl, and infestation of a few 

 peach trees by the yellows. A little summer spraying is done. It 

 is very dry and all crops are showing the effect, although well-tilled 

 orchards are holding their own. 



Phillipston (W. L. Mann). — The drop has been 60 per cent of 

 fruit set. Fruit prospect : apples, 60 ; peare, 90 ; peaches, 85 ; plums, 

 75; blackberries, 95; bluebemes, 70. The cuiTant crop yield was 

 65, as dry Aveather reduced it. Currants brought, however, 120 per 

 cent prices. Raspberries have not been entirely harvested, and the 

 prospect is for an SO per cent crop; prices are 115. CheiTy crop 

 is 25 per cent of normal, owing to late frosts, and has sold for 90 

 per cent prices. Some peach leaf-curl has made its appearance. 

 Brown-tail moths are the insects doing most injury. Continued 

 drought is causing fruit to drop badly and leaves to turn yellow. 



Lunenburg (H. 0. Mead). — Some fruit drop on dry land. Fruit 

 prospect: apples, 45; pears, 80; peaches, 35; plums, 30; black- 

 berries, 70. Currant crop was 75; frost and dry weather hurt it; 

 prices have been 25 per cent above normal. The raspbeiTy crop 

 has not been wholly harvested, but its yield may be put at 70; frost 

 was the chief factor in reducing it; prices have been about normal. 

 Some apple scab, very little peach leaf-curl and just a trace of 

 grape mildew are to be seen. San Jose scale and gypsy moths 

 are the most troublesome. Very little summer spraying. Trees on 

 dry land are beginning to show the effects of the drought. 



Lancaster (C. L. Wilder). — The drop of fruit has been about as 

 usual, — 30. Fruit prospect: pears, good; peaches and plums, none; 

 blackberries, good. The currant crop is 75 per cent of a normal. 

 Raspberries have been harvested, and the crop has yielded about one- 

 half the usual amount, as birds and dry weather have been against 



