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DUKES COUNTY. 



Chilmark. — Season about two weeks early. Potato bugs are 

 doing the most damage. Good help is hard to obtain at any 

 price. Outlook good. 



B. T. HlLLMAN. 



ESSEX COUNTY. 



Ipswich. — Season ten days early. The tent-caterpillar is 

 unusually prevalent, but, as they are easily killed off, are not doing 

 much damage. The Colorado beetle is on hand in large numbers. 

 Good help not plenty. Wages vary from twenty to thirty-four 

 dollars. The farmers have an unusual prospect of good crops at 

 present. Fruit has set fairly well. The rain of the last fortnight 

 has assured a good crop of hay and given all crops a good start. 

 The nights have been too cool for corn. 



O. C. Smith. 



Manchester. — Season two weeks early. Potato bugs, June 

 bugs and caterpillars are doing the most damage. Good help 

 fairly plenty at about twenty dollars per month and board. Out- 

 look is good if produce sells well. 



John Baker. 



Marblehead. — Season twenty clays early. Tent-caterpillars 

 are numerous, and are damaging fruit trees. Good help scarce at 

 twenty to twenty-two dollars per month. For some reason the 

 hay crop, which promised so well early in the season, seems now 

 to be very light in this section. 



AY. S. Phillips, Jr. 



Newbury. — Season ten days early. Caterpillars and potato 

 bugs are doing the most damage. Help is plenty at fifteen to 

 twenty-five dollars. Good help is scarce. Although crops prom- 

 ise well, they cannot make good the loss of the past year. 



G. W. Adams. 



North Andover. — Season ten days early. Tent-caterpillars 

 are the only injurious insects, and they have done but very slight 

 damage. Good help is not plenty, and costs from eighteen to 

 twenty-two dollars per month. All kinds of seeds have come up 

 will. Land was in good condition for planting early in May. 

 Tin' past ten days have been cold and wet. Frosts have damaged 

 beans and other crops in many places. 



Peter Holt, Jr. 



