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average yield and good prices. There is a fair prospect for apples, 

 peaches, quinces and grapes; many pear trees killed; too early to tell 

 about cranberries. Pastures are getting dry. Rye, oats and barley 

 are very good crops. Very few bees are kept here. 



Walpole (Edward L. Shepard). — Gypsy moths, elm-leaf beetles and 

 potato bugs are doing damage. Corn looks fairly well, but needs rain ; 

 about half the crop is raised for ensilage. The hay crop is a little 

 below the normal in quantity, but of good quality. Corn and Hungarian 

 grass are the principal forage crops and both are feeling the drought. 

 Market-garden crops are below the normal. The crop of fruit will be 

 small from the present outlook. Pastures are drying up. Rye, oats 

 and barley are below the normal. Two parties keep bees to a small 

 extent. 



Franklin (C. M. Allen). — Indian corn looks finely; two-thirds the 

 crop goes into the silo. The hay crop was seven-eighths of the normal 

 and of fine quality. The dry weather has injured forage crops mate- 

 rially. The condition of market-garden crops is average and prices have 

 been better than usual. Fruit is not up to the usual average in promise. 

 Pasturage is very dry, but improving with the recent showers. Very 

 few bees are kept here. 



BRISTOL COUNTY. 



Mansfield (Wm. C. Winter). — The elm-leaf beetle is perhaps the 

 worst insect this spring, but is controlled now by spraying. Corn is 

 late and owing to dry weather not any too promising; a very small 

 proportion will be put in the silo. Hay is short, of a normal crop of 

 excellent quality. Sweet corn and Hungarian grass are the principal 

 forage crops grown and are not promising. The condition of market- 

 garden crops is generally poor, prices about as usual. Apples, pears, 

 peaches and plums a light crop; quinces and grapes a normal crop; 

 cranberries uncertain. Pastures are in very poor condition. Rye, oats 

 and barley are little grown but are about normal. Very little is done 

 with bees, except by cucumber growers. Except for two light thunder 

 showers there has been very little rain for a month. 



Berkley (Rollin H. Babbitt). — Elm-leaf beetles and potato bugs 

 are doing damage. Indian corn has been looking well, but needs rain ; 

 very little grown for the silo. The hay crop is above an average, both 

 in quantity and quality. Corn fodder, oats and millet are the principal 

 forage crops grown and are sadly in need of rain. Strawberries were 

 abundant but prices were low; other small fruits a failure. There is 

 not much fruit about here except grapes and cranberries, which promise 

 well. Pasturage is drying up fast. Rye, oats and barley are about 

 average crops. Our people are just beginning to keep bees. 



Swansea (F. G. Arnold). — Elm-leaf beetles and potato bugs are 

 doing damage. Corn is very backward, owing to dry weather; only 

 three silos in town. A good crop of hay of extra quality was secured 



