FRANKLIN COUNTY. 



Ashfield. — Season two weeks early. Tent- caterpillars are 

 doing the most damage. Good help not very plenty, and costs 

 eighteen to twenty dollars per month. Outlook very favorable a1 

 the present time. The weather is somewhat cool, with rVeouieht 

 rains. 



A. G-. Howes. 



Charlemont. — Season more than two weeks early. Not as 

 many apple-tree worms as usual. Good help not very plenty, and 

 costs from sixteen to twenty dollars per month. The warm sum- 

 mer weather of the fore part of the month was very favorable for 

 putting in all kinds of seeds, which came up quickly. We have 

 had cool weather the past two weeks, with plenty of rain. 



H. S. Giles. 



Deerfield. — Season ten days early. The potato bug is doing 

 the most damage. Good help not plenty ; twenty dollars per 

 month for the season. Grass is early, with prospect of a fair crop. 

 Corn is ten days early and stands well. Oats are forward and 

 looking well. Onions are looking well and are very well stocked. 

 Tobacco is early and the plants are being set. The weather lias 

 been cold for the last two weeks, with slight frost one or two 

 mornings, but not enough to damage crops. 



Charles Jones. 



Leverett. — Season ten days early. The cabbage flea, tomato 

 flea and cabbage maggot are doing the most damage. Good help 

 is plenty at one dollar and twenty-five cents per day and board, 

 or one dollar and fifty cents without. General outlook good. 

 The weather has been cold and wet, and bad for corn and other 

 planted seeds ; good for grass, oats and rye. 



W. L. BOCTWELL. 



Rome. — Season two weeks early. No insects are doing much 

 damage at present. Help is equal to the demand, at a dollar per 

 day and hoard. Outlook good. The first half of May was very 

 dry and warm ; last half, cold and wet. There is nothing at this 

 date to make the farmers discouraged in this section. 



.1 . K. BttOM n . 



