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peaches and pears is poor; a fungus on the trees early in the season 

 seemed to blight all fruit. Rye, oats and barley are good crops. Bees 

 are not kept to any extent. The cranberry bogs are looking well. 



Truro (John B. Dyer). — Plant lice and yellow squash bugs are 

 doing damage, but are decreasing. Corn needs rain; no silos here. 

 The hay crop was good. Some corn fodder is raised to help out dry 

 pastures. Early potatoes suffered from dry weather on uplands ; low- 

 lands good. Apples do not promise well; pears, grapes and cranberries 

 good. Pasturage is all dried up on uplands. Rye, oats and barley are 

 fair crops. A few hives of bees are kept by perhaps half a dozen 

 different owners in town. 



DUKES COUNTY. 

 West Tisbury (Geo. Hunt Luce). — Potato bugs are doing damage. 

 Indian corn is rather backward and only a small proportion of it will be 

 put into the silo. The hay crop is a good average in quantity and of 

 fine quality. Corn is the principal forage crop grown and is backward. 

 Dry weather is doing damage to garden crops and potatoes; prices 

 high. The prospect is poor for fruit of all kinds. Pasturage is in poor 

 condition. Rye, oats and barley are below average crops. Bees are 

 not kept in our town. 



