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NOTES OF CORRESPONDENTS. 



(Returned to us June 24.) 



BERKSHIRE COUNTY. 



Neil) Marlborough (E. W. Rhoades) . — Indian corn is very good 

 color, but much seed failed to germinate. Haying will begin about 

 July 5, with fair prospects of a full crop, although old meadows are 

 poor in places. There is a largely increased acreage of early pota- 

 toes and they promise well. A large quantity of milk has been 

 produced ; native beef is called for at good prices. Pastures are 

 in good condition, but rain is needed to keep them so. Cherries 

 are a full crop, but the birds get large quantities of the best of 

 them ; plums growing finely. 



■Alford (L. T. Osborne). — There are very few insects and 

 potato bugs were never so scarce. Corn is rather late, but on the 

 whole is looking well, with acreage rather larger than last year. 

 Haying has just begun, with a full average crop, but rather more 

 winterkilled than was at first supposed. The acreage of early 

 potatoes is larger than usual and the crop is very promising. 

 Quantity and price of dairy products and supply and price of dairy 

 cows are about as in the past two 3'ears. Pastures are in very fine 

 condition and seem to have been less injured by the cold winter 

 than meadows. Apples promise a large crop and pears a poor one. 



Richmond (T. B. Salmon). — Potato and squash bugs are doing 

 some damage. Indian corn is in very good condition ; acreage 

 about average. Haying has not begun and the prospect for the 

 crop is very good. There is about the usual acreage of early pota- 

 toes and there is good promise of a crop. Early market-garden 

 crops are little raised, but what there are look very well. More 

 than the average quantity of dairy products produced at good 

 prices ; cows are high and good ones scarce. Pasturage is in very 

 good condition. Strawberries good ; raspberries dying of some 

 disease of the canes ; currants looking well ; cherries good and 

 blackberries average. 



Becket (Wm. H. Snow). — Potato bugs, currant worms and tent 

 caterpillars are doing some damage. Indian corn is late and less 

 than the usual acreage has been planted. Haying has hardly 



