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the rains have damaged the crop already cut. Early potatoes 

 promise better than last year. The demand for good batter and 

 milk increases, and the price likewise. Strawberries are scarce 

 and high in price. The crop near the shore, where the frosts did 

 not fall, is very good. On the whole the farmer is encouraged, 

 and no calamity threatens the crops- 



Lakeville (Elbridge Cushman). — There is no marked differ- 

 ence in this season as compared with last. Corn is looking fairly 

 well; acreage about the same as last year. Haying has com- 

 menced, with not more than one-half a crop on high ground, but 

 on low ground, on account of recent rains, the crop will be about an 

 average. Potatoes are looking fairly well; acreage about the 

 same as last year. Milk is not as plenty as last year at this date ; 

 prices of dairy products have not advanced. Pears have set well. 

 Apples do not promise an abundant crop. The outlook for small 

 fruits is good. 



Rochester (Geo. H. Weld). — Season about the same as last. 

 Corn not as forward as last year at this time ; about the same 

 acreage planted. Haying commenced June 10, much earlier 

 than usual. There will be about one-half as much hay as last 

 year. Early potatoes are looking well ; acreage about the same 

 as last year. Dairy products about the same as last year. 

 Small fruits are looking well. Strawberries are now at their 

 height ; about half a crop of them. 



West Bridgeivater (F. E. Howard) . — The thermometer aver- 

 aged for twenty-nine days, in June this year, at five o'clock 

 A.M., 55^1° ; for the same number of days last year, taken at the 

 same hour, oof |°. The lowest temperature this year was June 

 5, 38° ; last year June 3, 44°. The highest this year was June 

 IG, 9G°. Indian corn though slow in coming up is looking well, 

 and the acreage is greater than last year. Haying has commenced, 

 and the crop will be considerably less than an average one. Early 

 potatoes promise well, and the acreage is greater than last year. 

 Prospect quite good for small fruits. 



BARNSTABLE COUNTY. 



Brewster (J. H. Clark). — Corn is looking well, and about the 

 same acreage as last year. Haying has commenced ; crop about 

 two-thirds of last year's crop (which was very large), though 

 nearly up to the average. Early potatoes promise well ; acreage 

 a little larger. Dairy products about the same as last year. Out- 

 look for small fruits very good except for cranberries, the prin- 

 cipal one grown. Should think this crop would be below the 



