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New Braintree. — Season tea days early. White grubs are 

 working quite badly iu some mowings. Help mostly foreign ; 

 costs about twenty dollars per month. Outlook fine for grass and 

 grain. There will be quite a crop of apples on odd-year trees. 

 There is every indication now of a prosperous year for farmers ; 

 most of them in this town send milk to Boston, and there is 

 abundance of feed for their large herds of cows. More young 

 stock is being raised than formerly. 



C. D. Sack. 



Petersham. — Season two weeks early. Currant worms, potato 

 bugs and tent-caterpillars are doing the most damage. Good help 

 not plenty ; costs one dollar and one-half to two dollars per day. 

 Outlook very good. Moisture rather excessive ; but, temperature 

 being warm, no crop suffers in consequence. 



S. B. Cook. 



Spencer. — Season fifteen days early. Tent-caterpillars, cur- 

 rant worms and potato bugs are doing the most damage. Good 

 help plenty, at one dollar and one-half per day. Outlook is good. 

 High temperature during the first nineteen days of May, with light 

 showers only on the 3d and 11th. The rest of the mouth mostly 

 rainy, cloudy and cool. 



H. H. Kingsbury. 



Templeton. — Season two weeks early. Potato bugs, tent- 

 caterpillars, squash bugs and currant worms are doing the most 

 damage. Good help plenty at one dollar and a half per day and 

 twenty to twenty-five dollars per month. Outlook favorable for 

 crops ; low prices. Spring opened unusually early and warm. Dry 

 up to May 18 ; since then, plenty of rain. The last two weeks 

 cool. Planting nearly finished. Grass looks very well. Peaches 

 winter killed. 



LUCIEN GOVE. 



Worcester. — Season two weeks early. Tent-caterpillars arc 

 doing the most damage. Good help scarce, and costs twenty to 

 twenty-five dollars per month. The first half of May was very 

 hot, advancing the season fully three weeks. The last two weeks 

 have b^en cold and rainy ; have set things backward, without par- 

 ticularly injuring any crop. 



F. J. Kinnky. 



