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Wareham. — Season two weeks early. Tent-caterpillars and 

 cut worms are doing the most damage. Very hard to obtain good 

 help at any price ; commands one dollar and fifty cents per day. 

 Outlook best for many years. The season is very forward. 

 Rather too wet for low and heavy land. No frosts in May. 

 Grass the best we have ever known. 



A. Savary. 



West Bridgewater. — Season two weeks early. Tent-caterpillars, 

 cabbage maggot and currant worms are doing the most damage. 

 Good help is not plenty, at one dollar and fifty cents per day. 

 Outlook good. The abundant rain of the past two weeks, follow- 

 ing the warm, dry weather of the early spring, gives everything a 

 freshness, and insures a good hay crop, I think. 



Davis Coeeeani). 



WORCESTER COUXTY. 



Auburn. — Season ten days early. Good help is not plenty, at 

 twenty to twenty-five dollars per month. Crops on the whole 

 are looking good. Strawberry plants badly winter killed. Corn 

 looks yellow. 



W. F. Stone. 



Barre. — Season two weeks early. Good help not very plenty ; 

 costs twenty to twenty-five dollars per month and board. Out- 

 look good. The tendency here is to raise more corn, and espe- 

 cially fodder, to help out the pastures. Two weeks ago the 

 season was very much more in advance of the time a year ago, but 

 the last two weeks have been so cold and rainy that there is not 

 as much difference now. 



J. L. Smith. 



Blackstone. — Season two weeks early. Good help very scarce, 

 and costs one dollar and one-quarter per day. The outlook is 

 glutted markets and low prices. From the 21st of April to the 

 20th of May little or no rain fell, and farmers were able to get 

 their planting done two weeks earlier than usual. Grass has been 

 injured by too early ripening. Good farm hands are so scarce, 

 and prices are so high, that farmers do their own work. 



L. R. Daniels. 



