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winter varieties poor ; no peaches ; few plums ; grapes fair ; liail 

 destroyed cranberries. Pastures are in fine condition. 



Marslifield (John H. Bourne). — Cut worms and white gi-ubs 

 are doing some damage. Corn is rather late but is making good 

 growth, and the prospect for the crop is much better than last year 

 at this time ; one-tenth of the crop will go into the silo. The hay 

 crop was a little better than that of last year and of fairly good 

 quality. Corn, oats and peas are the principal forage crops, but 

 are not very extensively raised. Market-garden crops are in good 

 condition ; more potatoes than usual and the early ones now dug 

 were never better. Apples and pears are average crops ; plums 

 few; some grapes looking well, others not; hail destroyed many 

 cranberries. Pastures are in good condition. Rye, oats and bar- 

 ley are good crops and the heads of rye and oats are long and well 

 filled out. 



Plympton (Winthrop Fillebrown). — Potato bugs and cut 

 worms are our most troublesome insects. Corn has improved 

 greatly the past two weeks ; we have no silos. On high land hay 

 is excellent, but low laud did not do as well. Rye, corn, peas, Hun- 

 garian grass and oats are used extensively for fodder. Potatoes 

 are in fine condition ; garden crops in general have made rapid 

 growth the past three weeks. Apples promise a good yield ; pears, 

 peaches and plums light ; quinces, grapes and cranberries excel- 

 lent. Pasturage is in about the usual condition and the present 

 rain is doing it much good. Rye, oats and barley are about aver- 

 age crops. 



Carver (J. A. Vaughan). — There have been but few insects, 

 potato bugs and currant worms being the most destructive. Hay 

 was a good crop and all secured in fine order. Corn is the princi- 

 pal forage crop and is looking well. Market-garden crops have 

 made good yields and brought good prices. There is a fair crop 

 of apples, but few pears and no peaches. Pasturage is in fair 

 condition. A few cranberry bogs were partly winterkilled, but 

 most of them started well to be injured by the June frost, while a 

 severe hailstorm destroyed the crop on many bogs. 



Mattapoisett (E. C. Stetson). — Indian corn is in good condi- 

 tion ; no silos in this vicinity. There was a large hay crop of fair 

 quality. Corn, barley and cow peas are the principal forage crops 

 grown and are in good condition. Market-garden crops, including 

 potatoes, are in good condition and those already harvested have 

 been about average in yield and price. Apples promise a good 

 yield ; pears and peaches poor ; plums and grapes good ; cranber- 

 ries poor. Pasturage is in good condition. Rye, oats and barley 

 are as good as the average, or a little better. 



