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we have had smce have made the prospect for grass much better. 

 As a rule grass will not be fit to cut for eight or teu days later 

 than last year. Oats look better than last year. Indian corn as 

 a rule is good, with acreage about the same as last year. Early 

 potatoes look the best for years. Price of butter a little higher 

 than last year. Outlook not good for small fruits ; none grown 

 for market. 



Ludloiv (C. B. Bennett). — Indian corn is looking very well, 

 with a third more planted than last year. Scarcely any hay has 

 been cut. There is a fair crop on moist manured land, but dry 

 upland is a failure. Early potatoes look well ; acreage about the 

 same as last year. Milk and butter are not as plenty as last year ; 

 prices about the same. Outlook is quite good for small fruits. 

 The rain of two weeks ago changed the entire face of nature. 



West Springfield (N. T. Smith). — Season about a week later 

 than last. Weather dry, with extremes of heat and cold. Indian 

 corn looks well, but is rather backward. Sweet corn came up 

 poorly and has grown slower than usual. The acreage of corn 

 has increased some fifteen per cent. Hajnng has commenced ; 

 will not be over two-thirds of an average crop. Fields of June 

 grass were white from ravages of the maggot in the stalks, and 

 now some fields of timothy are fast turning white from the same 

 cause. Early potatoes are looking promisingly, but the soil is too 

 dry for a large crop ; some ten per cent increase in acreage. 

 Potato bugs are plent3^ Improvement in dairy products, except 

 in quantity. Strawberries a poor crop, with a few exceptions ; 

 cherries good ; raspberries, blackberries and currants fully up to 

 the average. 



WORCESTER COUNTY. 



Barre (J. L. Smith). — Season not as forward as last. Indian 

 corn is looking well ; acreage one-fourth greater than last j'^ear. 

 Only a few have begun haying. The crop will not be more than 

 two-thirds as large as last year's. The weather is good for a 

 second crop. Early potatoes are looking finely and not many 

 bugs ; acreage very much larger than last year. Not as much 

 milk produced as last year ; price one cent per can better than 

 last year and very little surplus. 



Berlin (P. B. Southwick). — Corn is looking fairly well ; acre- 

 age about the same as last year. Little haying has been done, 

 and the prospect is for a light crop. Early potatoes are looking 

 finely ; think the acreage considerably larger than last year. 

 Should say dairy products are less in quantity than last year, and 

 in quality and price about the same. Outlook for small fruits 



