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bage acreage, 90 as comi^ared with normal and witli 1912; condition, 

 good. Acreage of late carrots smaller than normal. Cauliflower 

 crop condition, 70; sales made at $1.85 per box. Acreage of late 

 celery, 80 compared with normal, 75 as compared with 1912; condi- 

 tion, 80. Dry Aveather is affecting sweet corn, but its condition is 

 normal. Onions have made a normal growth; maggots have done 10 

 per cent damage; condition of crop, 75. Green pea crop condition, 

 100; price per bushel, $2.75; 1912, $2.50. Tomato crop prospect, 

 100 ; fruiting as well as usual ; few tomatoes have been gathered from 

 early set plants. It has been very dry. 



A. N. SOMERS, Westhorough {Worcester County). — String bean 

 crop, 40; shell bean crop, 80. Beets have sold for 36 cents per 

 dozen bunches ; late beet acreage, 100 ; percentage germination was 

 95; some damage was done by a torrential rain late in June, before 

 seed had sprouted. Acreage of late cabbage, 100 compared with 

 normal and with 1912; condition, 95. Acreage of late carrots, 90. 

 Cauliflower crop condition, 90. Late celei-y acreage, 100 as compared 

 with both normal and 1912; condition, 95. Dry weather is affecting, 

 to a limited extent, the earliest and latest sweet corn planted; con- 

 dition, 95. Onion crop has not made a normal growth; condition, 

 50; green pea crop yield, 75; price per bushel, $1.85; 1912, $1.60. 

 Tomato crop prospect, 100; fruiting as well as usual. Early plant- 

 ings give promise of immediate ripening of choice fruit; very few 

 tomatoes have been gathered. There is practiced no systematic 

 application of irrigation, except the " tin can " or hill irrigation 

 used by myself on an acre of melons. An old tin can with a hole 

 in the bottom is filled and set firmly in the hill. It is filled by hand 

 as often as moisture is needed, and it works well but consumes 

 much time; yet an acre of fine melons has been saved by it. Open- 

 ditch irrigation and drainage are practiced to a limited extent only. 



Cornelius Leaflang, Leicester {Worcester County). — Late 

 asparagus beetle has appeared. It is combated by spraying with 

 Paris green or arsenate of lead; the former is applied at the rate 

 of 4 pounds to 50 gallons of water, the latter at the rate of % 

 pounds to 50 gallons of water. String bean crop, 100; shell bean 

 crop, 100, Late beet acreage, 100 ; pei'centage germination, 80, Late 

 cabbage acreage, 75 as compared with normal; 60 as compared with 

 1912; condition, 70. Late carrot acreage, 100. Cauliflower crop 

 condition, 65 as compared with normal. The acreage of late celery 

 is 90 ; as compared with 1912, 85 ; condition, 70, Sweet com is very 

 much affected by the dry weather; condition, 65. Onions have made 

 a noiinal growth and their condition is 125. Green pea crop yield, 

 50, Tomato crop prospect, 70 ; not f raiting as well as usual. The 

 drought has affected market-garden crops severely. Peas were 

 very poor, cabbage plants died after being planted in spite of 



