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■with no damage from frosts. Canker worms and potato bugs are 

 doing some damage. There is but little spraying done, but the 

 practise is rather increasing. Farm help is scarce, and one-half 

 of it is good help. Wages average $22 per month with board and 

 635 per month without board. There will be about the usual 

 acreage of the various farm crops. 



Hawley (C. C. Fuller). — The season compares well with the 

 normal. Pastures and mowings are in fine condition, and fall 

 seeding looks well. The fruit bloom is late, but is coming out 

 well ; no frosts as yet. Insects are not doing any damage as yet. 

 Spraying is very little practised. Farm help is very scarce, but 

 nearly all is good help. Wages average from S'20 to S25 per 

 month with board and §1.50 per day without board. 



Colrain (A. A. Smith). — The season is a full average one, 

 agriculturally speaking. The grass crop gives promise of a 

 bounteous harvest. The fruit bloom is fully up to the normal. 

 No insects have appeared as yet. Spraying is practised to a 

 large extent, and is on the increase. Farm help is scarce, and 

 not over half of it is good help. Wages average $25 per month 

 with boai'd and Si. 50 per day without board. Possibly there will 

 be more forage crops raised for soiling purposes than in former 

 years. 



Shelbv.rne (Geo. E. Taylor). — Cold weather kept vegetation 

 back until May, when it came forward with surprising rapidity, 

 and all things are now up to the normal condition. Pastures 

 good; upland mowings good, low lands winter-killed. All fruit 

 shows a very full bloom. No insects are doing damage of any 

 account. Spraying is but little practised. Farm help is not very 

 plenty, and not much of it is good help. Wages average $20 per 

 month with board and $1.25 to 81-50 per day without board. 

 There are no marked changes in the acreage of farm crops. 



Sunderland (J. M. J. Legate). — Planting is two weeks later 

 than some years. Mowings are looking finely, and fall seeding 

 never looked better, except on low lands where ice lay. The fruit 

 bloom of all kinds is away above the average, and we have had 

 no frosts as yet. No insects except a few tent caterpillars. Farm 

 help is plenty, and most of it is good. Wages average from $18 

 to $22 per month with board and $1.50 per day without board. 

 There may be a slight increase in the acreage of tobacco. 



Moidague (C. S. Raymond). — The season is perhaps a little 

 later than the normal. Pastures and mowings promise well, but 

 grass winter-killed in some low places. All kinds of fruit show a 

 fine bloom. Very little damage from insects. Spraying is but 

 little practised. Farm help is very scarce, and only a very small 



