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well, onions about an average. Dairy products about average in 

 quantity and price. Pasturage rather short. Strawberries a light 

 crop. 



Southampton (C. B. Lyman). — Potato beetles and cut worms 

 are doing the most damage. Corn is looking well ; fully up to the 

 average. Haying progresses slowly, with about an average crop. 

 Early potatoes have about the usual acreage, but are later than 

 common. Dairy products are fully up in quantity and price. 

 Pasturage looks well. Strawberries are a fair crop. 



Goshen (Alvan Barrus). — Potato beetles, cut worms and wire 

 worms are prevalent, but none are exceptionally bad. Acreage 

 of corn slightly lower, but crop looking well. Haying just com- 

 mencing, with prospect for an average crop. Early potatoes com- 

 pare favorably in acreage, and look nicely. Dairy products are 

 favorable in quantity and price. Pasturage in good condition. 

 Fruits and berries are nearly all below average condition. 



HAMPDEN COUNTY. 



Tolland (F. T. Moore) . — Cut worms are doing the most dam- 

 age. Corn is about two weeks late. Haying has not begun, and 

 the crop is light. Few early potatoes were planted, and those are 

 not promising. Dairy products are a full average in quantity and 

 price. Pasturage is in quite good condition. Apples set light ; 

 wild berries promise a fair crop. 



West Springfield (N. T. Smith). — All insects are fairly active. 

 Corn is small, but has a good stand, and is looking well ; average 

 acreage. Haying progresses slowly, because of poor weather ; 

 crop about an average. Acreage of early potatoes about the 

 same as usual ; looking well, but small. Market-garden crops 

 show little change from former years. Milk has been abundant, 

 and the price the same as last year; but butter has not yet reached 

 so low a figure. Pasturage in very good condition. Strawberries 

 are abundant, apples have set fairly well, pears are promising and 

 cherries good. 



Agawam (R. De Witt). — The potato beetle is the most active 

 of the insects. Corn looks fairly well ; the acreage of corn is 

 less, and that of tobacco greater, than usual. Haying is just 

 beginning, with light crop on old fields, and a heavy one on new 

 seeded ground. Acreage of early potatoes larger than usual, and 

 the vines making a larger growth. The Milk Association handled 

 some thirty thousand quarts more of milk in May than ever in any 

 one month. 



Hampden (J. N. Isham). — Potato beetles and black lice are 

 doing the most damage. Corn is looking finely, with a full aver- 



