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is removed from tlie ground in nearly all eases; clean culture is 

 practiced by the new men; clover is seldom used as a cover crop, 

 grass being used as a mulch. The most damage is being done by the 

 gypsy moth and San Jos«^ scale. Forty per cent of the strawberry 

 crop was damaged by frost; in my opinion, the prices of straw- 

 berries have been satisfactory. Summer spraying for sooty fungus 

 is not being practiced. 



Newbury (Elbridge Noyes). — There has been no noticeable dam- 

 age by frosts. The setting of tree fruits was very poor; there has 

 been much drop. Crop i3rospect: apple and plum, poor; i^ear and 

 cherry, fair; peach and currant, good. Clean culture is the general 

 method practiced; legumes are planted to some extent. The gypsy 

 and brown-tail moths are doing the most damage. 



Norfolk County. 



Medway (Monroe Morse). — Tree fruits have not set well; the 

 peach drop has been very heavy. Apples and cherries promise a 

 good crop; peaches, fair. Legumes are planted quite extensively; 

 oats, barley and rye are also used as cover crops. Peaches failed 

 to set, and the cold weather blighted the embryo fruits; the drop 

 has been unusually large. 



Westtvood (Ingram I. Margeson). — Apples, pears, jDcaches, 

 plums, sweet cherries and currants were damaged 25 per cent by 

 frosts. Not more than one-quarter of the tree fruits, including 

 peach, i^et well ; the drop of peaches and cherries has been very 

 heavy. Fruit crop i^rospect: apple, 25; jaear, 25; peach, 100; 

 plum, 75; cherry, 75; currant, 75; raspberry and blackberry, 75; 

 blueberry, 100. Orchards do best under cultivation ; sod mulch is 

 practiced and grass is left around the trees, which is better than 

 removal of hay; clean culture is the method used; legumes are not 

 much jilanted; general truck crops used in young orchards; some 

 buckwheat is also used. Tent caterpillar, gypsy and brown-tail 

 moths and the San Jose scale are doing most damage; have not 

 noticed any fire blight this summer. The strawberry crop was in- 

 jured 50 per cent by frost; prices have been very satisfactory, 

 probably 25 per cent better than 1912. No summer spraying for 

 fruit diseases is practiced. Fruit generally looks well. Peaches are 

 unusually large for this season of the year; currants are of good 

 size, although there is not a great quantity on (he bushes. 



Bristol County. 

 South Easton (Wilmarth P. Howard). — Frost has damaged 

 fruit as follows: peaches, 50; plums, 85; small fruits, 25; most of 

 the damage was done during the last week of May. Tree fruits set 



