Monterey. — Season some two weeks early. Good help is 

 scarce at sixteen dollars per month and board for twelve months. 

 Outlook remarkably good. Grass very fine. Fruit fair. A great 

 amount of rain has fallen lately. 



W. S. BlDWELL. 



Richmond. — Season two weeks early. Potato bugs doing the 

 most damage. Good help not plenty at any price. Slight frost 

 on the morning of May 29th. Outlook good. 



M. W. Coleman. 



Windsor. — Season fully three weeks early. Good help very 

 scarce ; costs from twelve to twenty dollars per month. The 

 weather is very good for growing crops, especially for mowing 



land and pasture. 



H. A. Ford. 



BRISTOL COUNTY. 



Dartmouth. — Season about two weeks early. Potato bugs, 

 squash bugs, and tent-caterpillars are doing the most damage. 

 Good help not plenty ; costs eighteen to twenty-five dollars per 

 month. The early part of the season was very fine growing 

 weather, but the last two weeks have been very wet. Grass was 

 extra good before the heavy rains, which badly injured it on low 

 lands. 



L. T. Davis. 



Mansfield. — Season fully two weeks early. Potato bugs and 

 small striped bugs are doing the most damage. Good help not 

 plenty, and costs twenty-five dollars per month. Outlook very 

 good and encouraging. 



D. E. Harding. 



Raynham. — Season two weeks early. Tent-caterpillars doing 

 the most damage. Good help is not plenty ; poor help is. Most 

 of the farmers are not up with their work, as the season is so 

 much earlier than usual. 



N. W. Shaw. 



Somerset. — Season two weeks early. Potato beetle and straw- 

 berry flea are doing the most damage. Good help not plenty. 

 Average wages twenty dollars per month. Outlook good. The 

 weather was remarkably warm for Ma}', with plenty of rain. 

 Vegetation has made rapid progress, and things never looked more 

 promising at this season of the year. 



Joseph Gibbs. 



