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looking well. Asparagus and peas made a good yield and sold 

 well. Stock is in excellent health, but prices for dairy products 

 are low on account of surplus. Pasturage in good average condi- 

 tion. Strawberries are not a full crop ; raspberries look well, as 

 do blackberries. 



Douglas (Wm. Abbott). — Striped squash bugs and cut woi'ms 

 are doing some damage. The acreage of Indian corn is about the 

 same as last year ; looks well but is rather low for the time of year. 

 Very little haying done ; crop will be light. Acreage of early 

 potatoes fully as large as usual ; promise of a full average crop. 

 Early peas never were better. Dairy products less in quantity and 

 price low ; stock is looking well. Pastures are in fair condition, 

 there having been great improvement. The prospect for all kinds 

 of berries is good. 



MIDDLESEX COUNTY. 



Dtinstable (A. J. Gilson). — Potato beetles and squash bugs 

 are numerous. Corn is looking well ; acreage less for ripening 

 but greater for the silo. Haying has not commenced but the crop 

 will be lighter than last year. Pearly potatoes only raised for home 

 use. Dairy products about as for two years past in quantity and 

 price, and the health of stock is generally good. Pastures are in 

 better condition than a month ago. Apple trees are well loaded 

 and the outlook is good. Cultivated berries winterkilled somewhat. 



Carlisle (E. J. Carr). — Cut worms are doing some damage. 

 Acreage of Indian corn about as usual ; crop looking well but not 

 so large as last year. Only a few have commenced haying, but a 

 good fair crop is expected. Not as many early potatoes were 

 planted as last year but they promise well. The yield of early 

 market-garden crops was hardly average, prices good. Dairy 

 products about the same as usual in quantity and price ; stock in 

 better health than formerly. Pasturage is in good condition. 

 Apples and strawberries are in good condition, and blackberries 

 are looking well. 



Billerica (J. N. Pardee). — Cut worms are complained of as 

 unusually destructive. Acreage of corn about as usual, and crop 

 booming, with good color and growing fast. Very little grass cut 

 as yet ; it has thickened since the rains and is but little below the 

 average. Acreage of early potatoes less than usual but crop look- 

 ing well and very promising. Milk has been unusually " flush " 

 so far, with the usual prices. Pasturage is rather better than 

 usual, owing to good rains. Strawberries are abundant and fine ; 

 raspberries winterkilled badly ; blueberries abundant ; pears few ; 

 apples abundant and not dropping much. 



