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give promise of an extra large crop. Yield of early market-garden 

 crops about as usual, prices lower and prospect for those not har- 

 vested ver}' good. Quantity of dairy products larger than usual, 

 prices lower ; enough dairy cows for the demand, with lower prices. 

 Pasturage is in very good condition. Apples are poor and straw- 

 berries a good crop. 



Halifax (G. W. Hativard). — Onion maggots, cut worms and 

 potato bugs are doing some damage. Corn looks miserably ; acre- 

 age about the same as last year. Not much haying has been done, 

 but the grass crop is heavy. Potatoes are looking excellently at 

 present and the full average acreage has been planted. Prices for 

 dairy products are lower than ever before and the same is true of 

 dairy cows. Pasturage is in good condition. Strawberries are a 

 good crop but sales are slow. 



Duxbury (A. M. Goulding). — We have been very free from 

 insects so far this year. Corn is backward and the acreage is 

 about as usual. Haying is well under way and the crop is consid- 

 erably above an average. Acreage of early potatoes about as 

 usual and crop looking fairly well. Yield and prices of early 

 market-garden crops much the same as last year. No variation 

 is noticeable in the quantity and price of dairy products for the 

 last two or three years. Pastures are in good condition. Straw- 

 berries have done well. 



Mattapoisett (A. R. Swift). — Currant worms and potato bugs 

 are plenty and on some apple orchards plant lice have appeared. 

 Indian corn is in fair condition considering the season ; acreage 

 less than usual. Haying begun on light lands with a good crpp. 

 The acreage of early potatoes is somewhat less than usual. Dairy 

 products are about the same in quantity and price as last year. 

 Pasturage is in good condition. The season will be short for 

 strawberries, owing to the cold wet weather ; currants good ; black- 

 berries and raspberries have set well. 



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Sandwich (J. R. Holway) . — Maggots and cut worms are doing 

 some damage. Indian corn is not up to the average in condition 

 and the acreage is small. Haying has begun ; crop good on new 

 seeding, old meadows small. About the usual acreage of early 

 market-garden crops planted and looking fairly well. Cows com- 

 mand high prices. Pasturage is in average condition. The out- 

 look for cranberries is promising. 



Mashpee (AV. F. Hammond). — Fire worms, cut worms, onion 



