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the increase. Help plenty, but good help scarce. Wages are 

 $1.50 per day without board. The full acreage of farm crops has 

 been planted. 



Arlington (W. W. Rawson). — The season compai'es very 

 favorably with the normal. The fruit bloom was very light. 

 No insects are doing damage. The practice of spraying against 

 insects is on the increase. Farm help is plenty and is mostly 

 good help. Wages are about $20 per month with board. The 

 acreage of the usual farm crops is about the same as in former 

 years. 



Lincoln (Samuel Hartwell). — The season looks favorable at 

 IDresent. Pastures and mowings are looking unusually well and 

 fall seeding wintered well. Full bloom on peaches, pears and 

 early apples ; few winter apples. Canker worms are doing some 

 damage. Spra3ing is but little practised, but is increasing. Farm 

 help is mostly good. Wages are about $20 per month with board 

 and $35 without. Farmers raise about the same crops in kind and 

 amount each year. 



Stoio (G. W. Bkadley). — The season is about an average 

 one. Pastures and mowings promise well and fall seeding wintered 

 well. The fruit bloom was verv good, considering the large crop 

 of last year. Very few insects as yet. The majority of our 

 farmers spray. Help seems to be plenty and averages ver}^ good. 

 Wages are from $12 to $25 per month with board and from $1.25 

 to $2 per day without. The acreage of farm crops is about as 

 usual. A few farmers are going into asparagus. 



Weston (H. L. Brown). — The season is a week or ten days 

 earlier than usual. Pastures and mowings promise well and fall 

 seeding mostly wintered well. A fair bloom on fall apples, pears 

 very full, peaches and cherries good. Insects are not doing much 

 damage. Our people spray for the canker worm mostly and there 

 are few as yet. Farm help is plenty, but less than half of it is 

 good. Wages are $16 to $20 per month with board and $1.50 to 

 $1.75 per day without. No marked change in the acreage of 

 farm crops. 



Sherborn (N. B. Douglas). — The season is fully up to the 

 normal. Mowings and pastures look well and fall seeding 

 wintered well. The bloom on all kinds of fruit was heaA-y, ex- 

 cept on Baldwin apples. Canker worms are doing some damage. 

 Spraying is well-nigh universal. Farm help is fairly plenty and 

 60 per cent is good. Wages are 816 to $22 per month with board 

 and $1.50 per day without. No appreciable difference in the 

 acreage of farm crops and no new enterprises. 



