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to the late season no market-garden crops are yet harvested ; prospect 

 fair for later crops. The quantity of dairy products is below average 

 and prices the same as last year; average supply of dairy cows, with 

 prices higher. Pasturage is quite good. Strawberries are a good crop ; 

 the outlook is for a short crop of fruit. 



Hamilton (Geo. R. Dodge). — Cut worms are especially destructive 

 this season; potato bugs, gypsy and brown-tail moths we have always 

 with us. Corn was planted late, but is coming on rapidly; acreage of 

 field corn very largely increased. Haying has scarcely begun and the 

 prospect is good for an average crop. The acreage of potatoes, early 

 and late, is about normal, and they promise well. Market-garden 

 crops compare well with the normal in price and yield. Dairy cows 

 and products are about average in quantity and price. Pasturage is 

 excellent and the supply of milk is well maintained. Strawberries are 

 just coming onto the market and promise a bountiful crop; other 

 berries are not commercially grown. 



Wenham (N. P. Perkins). — Squash bugs, brown-tail moths, plant 

 lice, onion maggots, potato bugs and cut worms are all doing damage. 

 The area devoted to Indian corn is slightly increased and it is now 

 picking up ; sweet corn and corn for the silo is that principally grown 

 here. Haying has not begun and will be a little late; the prospect is 

 better than two weeks ago but there will not be nearly an average 

 crop. Potatoes have come up well and are looking well, with a small 

 increase in acreage. Not much in the way of market-garden crops 

 harvested except spinach, which has brought low prices. Price of 

 milk two cents a can less than last year, with rather less quantity in 

 prospect ; good cows are quite high and good beef cows are also selling 

 better than usual. Pasturage was very poor up to June 5, but has 

 improved since then; our pastures are running out badly. The out- 

 look is good for strawberries; fair for gooseberries and currants; few 

 peaches, and prospect for apples and pears very poor. Taken as a 

 whole the acreage devoted to vegetables is rather increased. 



NORFOLK COUNTY. 



Cohasset (Ellery C. Bates). — No insects are doing damage. 

 Indian corn is not raised. Ha}'ing has begun with the prospect of a 

 large crop. There is a normal acreage of early potatoes and the crop 

 promises well. Early market-garden crops are about normal in yield 

 and price and the prospect is good for later ones. Dairy products are 

 above normal in quantity and price. Pasturage is in good condition. 

 The outlook is good for strawberries, raspberries and currants. 



Canton (E. V. Kinsley). — Canker worms, cabbage worms, cut 

 worms and potato beetles are doing damage. Indian corn is looking 

 well; acreage larger than normal; much fodder corn yet to be planted. 

 June grass is being cut and the haj' - crop as a whole promises above 

 normal. There have been an unusually large number of small fields of 



