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but looks favorable for good crops. Pastures are looking well, 

 and mowings extra well ; fall seeding wintered about as usual. 

 Apples, except Baldwins, show a full bloom ; pears small ; peaches 

 and plums poor ; small fruits average ; no frosts as yet. Tent 

 caterpillars are doing some damage. Very little spraying is done 

 in this locality, and it is not on the increase. Farm help is scarce, 

 and very little of it is good help. Wages average $20 per month 

 with board and $2 per day without board. There are no marked 

 changes in the acreage of farm crops. 



Millis (E. F. Richardson). — The season is late. Pastures 

 and mowings promise well, and fall seeding wintered finely. There 

 is a good bloom of apples and pears ; peaches much below the 

 average, and many trees winter-killed. No insects are doing 

 damage at present. Spraying is practised but little. Farm help 

 is scarce, and about half of it good help. Wages average $20 to 

 625 per day with board and $1.50 per day or §10 per week without 

 board. There will be no marked changes in the acreage of the 

 usual farm crops. 



BRISTOL COUNTY. 



Attleborough (Isaac Alger). — The season is well up to the 

 normal. Pastures and mowings are above the average in condi- 

 tion, and fall seeding wintered well. Apples and pears made an 

 average bloom, except Baldwin apples; no peach bloom; plums 

 and small fruits fair. No insects are doing damage. Spraying 

 is but little practised. Farm help is fairly plenty. Wages average 

 $20 per month with board and $1 .50 per day without board. There 

 will be no marked changes in the acreage of farm crops. 



Norton (Wm. A. Lane). — The season is about a normal one. 

 Pastures are looking well, and fall seeding is in good, fair condi- 

 tion. Apples had a very heavy bloom, pears fair ; peach trees are 

 all dead in this locality. Tent caterpillars are the only insects that 

 have appeared. Spraying is increasing in this locality. Farm help 

 is not plenty, and what there is is not very good. Wages average 

 $24 per month with board and §1.50 per day without board. There 

 will be an increase in the acreage of potatoes. 



Westport (A. S. Sherman). — No crop is up to the average ex- 

 cept grass, and planting is delayed. Pastures and mowings promise 

 well, and fall seeding is in good condition. Apple trees have 

 bloomed full, pears medium ; peaches will be scarce, being badly 

 winter-killed. A few tent caterpillars are the only insects as yet. 

 Very little spraying is done, and the practice is not increasing. 

 Farm help is very scarce, and not over 25 per cent of it can be 

 called good help. Wages average from $22 to $26 per month with 



