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West Springfield. — Season two weeks early. Apple and cur- 

 rant worms and cut worms doing some damage. Good help 

 scarce and high. By the day, poor help ask one dollar and a 

 half, and twenty-five dollars and board per month. Fine 

 planting weather up to May 20. Plentiful rains at intervals since. 

 Most farmers have finished planting. Orchard grass and clover 

 will be fit to cut before the middle of June. Some will cut the 



fiist week in June. 



J. N. Bagg. 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY. 



Belchertown. — Season two weeks early. Currant worms are 

 doing the most damage. Good help is very scarce at any price. 

 The outlook is favorable. The long dry spell has had a notice- 

 able effect on our upland mowings, which the receut rains will 

 hardly bring up to the average. Corn not all planted yet. 



H. C. West. 



Goshen. — Season two weeks early. Good help is not plenty, 

 and some are entirely without it ; costs from sixteen to twenty- 

 four dollars per month. Recent rains have delayed late plant- 

 ing, and the present cool weather is retarding growth somewhat. 

 No frosts yet. 



Alvan Barrus. 



H< alley. — Season earlier May 1, but no earlier June 1. Can- 

 ker worms and caterpillars are doing the most damage. Good 

 help not plenty ; Poles at ten dollars per month. Outlook fair. 

 Grass suffered from lack of rain early in the season, but frequent 

 rains in the last two weeks have brought the crop forward. 

 Onions not well stocked. Corn backward and yellow, owing to 

 cold and cloudy weather. 



II. C. Russell. 



Hatfield. — Season ten days early. The onion maggot is work- 

 ing some. The cold weather of the past few days has put crops 

 back. Corn and grass are looking finely. Considerable tobacco 

 has been set. Onions are looking well, where the maggot has not 

 worked. 



.1. 1). Porter. 



SoutJiampton. — Season two weeks early. Good help not very 

 plenty, at twenty to twenty-two dollars per month. Mowing ami 

 pasture never looked better at this time of the year than now. 

 Tobacco is being set out. The largest grower commenced setting 

 May 22. Full average acreage. Outlook very good. 



C. B. Lyman. 



