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8. What is the outlook for such fruits and berries as are 

 grown for market in your locality, naming them? 



Returns were received from 108 correspondents, and from 

 these the following summary has been made :* — 



Insects. 

 Among insects the potato beetle and the cut worms appear 

 to be causing the most trouble, although the former insect is 

 not more prevalent than usual. Cut worms appear to be 

 unusually numerous. In the Connecticut valley they have 

 committed serious depredations in tobacco and onion fields. 

 The canker worm has also done considerable damage in some 

 localities. Other insects mentioned by correspondents are 

 squash bugs, wire worms, grasshoppers, cabbage maggots, 

 onion maggots, rose bugs, the pear tree psylla, the codlia 

 moth, spittle insects, asparagus beetles, currant worms, tent 

 caterpillars, fire worms and the Hessian fly. Only one cor- 

 respondent reported the presence of the horn fly. 



Indian Corn. 

 Indian corn has stood the dry weather better than most 

 crops, and is generally reported as looking well, though 

 some correspondents qualify this statement by speaking of 

 it as backward. Stand and color are generally reported 

 good. There seems to be quite a general increase in acreage 

 throughout the State, fully one-third of the correspondents 

 reporting an increase, and all but two of the remainder 

 speaking of the acreage as average. Some put the increase 

 as high as one-fourth, while others speak of it as slight. 



The Hay Crop. 

 At the time of making returns haying was generally 

 begun all over the State, with the exception of Berkshire 

 County, although some few reported it as not yet com- 

 menced. Most spoke of it as just beginning and very few 

 as well advanced. The crop will be light in almost all sec- 

 tions, only nine correspondents speaking of the crop as 

 either good or average. Most speak of it as either light or 

 very light, while some few report only half a crop. 



• Since tli?se returns were received rain has been general over the State. Much 

 hay injured in the field. 



