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ucts are about the same as usual in quantity and price, and stock 

 is unusually healthy. Pastures are in very good condition. Ap- 

 ples promise very well, and the prospect is fair for blackberries 

 and blueberries. 



AVORCESTER COUNTY. 



New Braintree (C. D. Sage). — Very little damage from insects 

 now. Corn has not come up well in many fields and the acreage 

 is a little less than last year. Very little haying done yet ; crop 

 light but improving. Acreage of early potatoes much less than 

 usual ; the early planted ones look well ; later ones did not come 

 up well and the crop will be small. Quantity of dairy products 

 same as usual ; price of butter very low and that of milk lower 

 than usual. Pasturage is in fair condition, having improved much 

 since the rains. Apples promise well. 



Dana (E. A. Albee). — Cut worms are doing some damage. 

 The acreage of corn is 25 per cent below the average ; looking 

 well. Haying has not commenced but there will be a good aver- 

 age crop. The acreage of early potatoes is less than that of last 

 year ; they are looking well at present. Early market-garden crops 

 are about as usual in yield and price, and the prospect is good for 

 later ones. Milk the same price but butter 5 cents a pound lower 

 than usual ; no disease here. Pastures are in good condition. 

 Strawberries were more than an average crop, and currants about 

 as usual. 



Royalston (A. J. Raymond). — The potato bug is the only insect 

 doing damage. Indian corn is rather backward ; acreage twice as 

 much as in other years. Haying has not yet begun and the crop 

 will not be quite an average one. Very few early potatoes planted 

 but they are looking well. Quantity of dairy products about as 

 usual ; prices lower ; stock all healthy. Pastures are rather dry 

 and there are some grasshoppers. Strawberries a good crop ; 

 blackberries and blueberries promise well. 



Templelon (Lucien Gove) . — Cut worms, potato bugs and small 

 squash bugs are doing damage. Corn is quite backward, having 

 to be replanted in some instances ; acreage larger than usual. A 

 few have commenced haying ; crop the lightest for years. Acre- 

 age of early potatoes rather less than last season but the prospect 

 is good. Early market-garden crops are a fair average in yield 

 and price ; later ones not so good. Quantity of dairy products a 

 fair average ; price of milk good ; butter the lowest for thirty-five 

 years ; health of stock good. Recent rains have brought pastures 

 up to the normal condition. Full crop of apples ; pears light ; no 



