NOTES OF CORRESPONDENTS. 



BARNSTABLE COUNTY. 



Dennis. — Season ten days early. The cranberry vine worm is 

 doing the most damage. Good help is worth twenty-five dollars 

 per month. Day laborers get fifteen cents per hour. The out- 

 look is good. 



Joshua Crowell. 



Eastham. — Season ten days early. Cut worms and potato 

 bugs doing the most damage. Good help scarce at one dollar and 

 fifty cents per day. Asparagus is a leading early crop, and the 

 acreage is yearly increasing. Outlook good. 



J. A. Clark. 



Sandwich. — Season nearly two weeks early. Fire worms are 

 doing considerable damage on cranberry bogs, and caterpillars on 

 fruit trees. Good help not plenty. Outlook very good. The 

 hay crop bids fair to be the largest for many years. 



J. R. Holway. 



BERKSHIRE COUNTY. 



Cheshire. — Season at least two weeks early. Good help is not 

 plenty, but the help we have costs from eighteen to twenty dollars 

 per month. The weather for April and May rather dry, some 

 days being very hot. Perhaps on the whole it was a little too dry. 

 Condition of growing crops is favorable. 



L. J. Northup. 



Egremont. — Season two weeks early. Good help not plenty, 

 and costs from twenty to twenty-five dollars per month. The 

 outlook is good. 



AY. H. Day. 



