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early potatoes is about the same as usual and the crop looks well 

 though late. The quantity and price of dairy products and the 

 supply and price of dairy cows is about the same as usual. 

 Pasturage is in good condition. Strawberries are not fruiting as 

 well as the bloom would indicate ; apples very few. Rain is 

 needed. 



Mansfield (Wm. C. Winter). — Potato bugs, green aphids and 

 thrips on rose and grape vines are doing some damage. Less corn 

 was planted this year than usual and that is very backward. Haying 

 is not commenced except on a very small scale ; crop looking well. 

 The acreage of early potatoes is much less than usual and very few 

 of them are above ground as yet. No market-garden crops har- 

 vested as yet. The quantity and price of dairy products and the 

 supply and price of dairy cows compares well with former years. 

 Pastures are in good condition. Strawberries, currents, black- 

 berries, plums and cherries are looking finely ; pears and apples 

 light ; no peaches. 



Stvansea (F. G. Arnold). — Owing to the wet spring corn is 

 very late ; the acreage is increased. Haying is late, with the pros- 

 pect of a good crop. The acreage of potatoes is very much smaller 

 than last year, but they promise well. Milk is plenty and price 

 the same as last year, 28 cents per can delivered to the peddler ; 

 price of cows about the same as usual. Pasturage is in very good 

 condition. Pears are plenty, peaches set well and apples fair. 



Dartmouth (L. T. Davis) . — Insects are doing the least damage 

 for many years. Not nearly all the Indian corn is planted that 

 will be, but that which is up is looking fairly well. Haying has 

 not begun to any extent, and the crop promises to be a very good 

 one. In this section early potatoes are almost an entire failure ; 

 acres have been plowed up, and some replanted. Early market- 

 garden crops are almost an entire failure, others fair; prices per- 

 haps a little better than usual. The quantity and price of dairy 

 products are about as usual ; price of cows perhaps a little higher. 

 Pastures are in very good condition. Apples and some other tree 

 fruits are hardly far enough along to tell what the result will be ; 

 strawberries fair, currants good. 



Acushnet (M. S. Douglas). — Currant worms are doing some 

 damage. Corn is looking well, with a good color; acreage two- 

 thirds of the average. Haying has begun and the crop is the 

 heaviest for years. The acreage of early potatoes is larger than 

 usual, and an average crop is promised. Yield of early market- 

 garden crops not large but prices good, and the prospect is good 

 for later ones. The quantity of dairy products is increased, with 

 prices the same ; price of dairy cows about as usual. Pasturage 



