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Tent caterpillars are doing the most damage, and most fruit 

 growers are spraying. Farm help is paid from $20 to $25 per 

 month with board, and from $1.50 to $1.75 per day without board. 

 Good help is hard to obtain, most farm laborers being ignorant 

 and incompetent. 



JStwton (Otis Pettee). — The season compares favorably with 

 last season, but is from ten to twelve days later. Live stock win- 

 tered very well. Grass is in good condition. Cherries and pears 

 blossomed fully, but apples were rather below the average in 

 bloom. Tent caterpillars are doing the most damage ; children 

 are employed by the Newton Horticultural Society to destroy 

 them, and are doing good work. 



ESSEX COUNTY. 



Marblehead (Wm. S. Phillips, Jr.). — The season is three 

 weeks late. Live stock wintered as well as usual. All grass lands 

 promise excellent results. The fruit bloom has been less than 

 twenty per cent of last year. Tent caterpillars have appeared, 

 and a few have been destroyed by burning. Farm help is paid 

 $20 to $25 per month with board, and $1.50 per day without 

 board. 



Danvers (C. H. Preston). — The season is later than last year. 

 Live stock wintered well. Grass of all kinds looks well. There 

 is a small bloom of apples, Baldwins being not more than one- 

 fourth of a full bloom. Tent caterpillars are doing the most dam- 

 age, and many are spraying their trees with Paris green. Farm 

 help is paid from $20 to $25 per month with board, and from $36 

 to $40 without board. 



North Audover (Peter Holt, Jr.). — The season is late and 

 cold. Milch cows generally look well, but owing to the short 

 supply of hay some stock wintered poorly. Grass is in good 

 condition, and fall seeded grain wintered well. Greening apples 

 bloomed fairly well, but Baldwins and early apples had very few 

 blossoms. The tent caterpillar has appeared ; prizes were offered 

 the children to collect tue eggs, and many thousands were col- 

 lected. Farm help is paid from $20 to $25 per month with board, 

 and $1.50 per day without board. 



Rowley (T. P. Hale). — The season is about twelve days later 

 than last year. Live stock has wintered well. Pastures are 

 short, and some grass has winter-killed. Pears bloomed well ; 

 other fruits are late and have not yet bloomed. Tent caterpillars 

 are doing the most damage, and many are taking advantage of the 

 cold spring to exterminate them. Farm help receives $1.50 per 

 day and from $20 to $25 per month with board. 



