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menced ; crop much improved by the recent rains. Early potatoes 

 Lave about an average acreage, and promise well. Dairy products 

 are about as usual in quantity and price. Pasturage is in good 

 condition. The blueberry crop promises to be the best for 

 years. 



Bolton (II. F. Haynes) . — Potato beetles are not very prevalent, 

 but rose bugs are eating cherries. Corn is backward, but looks 

 well ; acreage a full average. Little haying is being done, but 

 the crop will be good. Fully as many early potatoes as usual are 

 planted, and are looking well. Early market-garden crops were 

 poor ; prospect good for late crops. Cows doing well, with the 

 usual prices for milk. Pastures in good condition. Strawberries 

 are doing fairly well and blackberries look well. 



Grajton (S. E. Stowe). — Potato beetles are doing the most 

 damage. Corn is backward, but the acreage is about the same 

 as usual. Haying just commenced, with more than an average 

 crop. Acreage of early potatoes larger than last year, and crop 

 looking nicely. Market-garden crops about the same as usual. 

 More milk produced, and prices the same as last year. Pastures 

 never in better condition. Strawberries a fine crop, and bringing 

 good prices. 



Worcester (H. R. Kinney). — Potato beetles, rose bugs and 

 squash bugs have been plenty of late. Indian com is late, with 

 an average acreage. But little grass cut, and the crop will be 

 very light. About the usual amount of early potatoes was 

 planted, but they are uneven and late. Spinach was light, but 

 other market-garden crops have done well, and late crops look 

 very well. Milk retails one cent higher than last year, the farmers 

 getting half the increase. Pasturage. begins to look thin. Straw- 

 berries are doing well, blackberries and raspberries promise well, 

 grapes are not setting very full. 



Spencer (H. H. Kingsbuky). — Potato beetles and rose bugs 

 are doing the most damage. Corn is thrifty, with a fine color, 

 and a tritle more than usual was planted. Very little haying has 

 been done, but the prospect is good for an average crop. The 

 acreage of early potatoes is slightly in excess of previous years, 

 and they are looking finely. Early market-garden crops are about 

 as usual in yield and price. The quantity of dairy product is on 

 the increase, and prices are firm. Wild and cultivated berries 

 promise an abundant crop, as do also pears and grapes. 



So uthb ridge (G. L. Clemence). — The spittle insect is doing 

 the most damage. Corn is not quite up in color, but the acreage 

 is about the same as last year. Little haying clone ; prospect for 

 crop good. Acreage of early potatoes about as usual, and they 



