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8. What is the condition of pasturage in your locality? 



9. What is the outlook for such fruits and berries as are 

 grown for market, naming them? 



Returns were received from 152 correspondents, and from 

 them the following summary has been made : — 



Insects. 

 Less damage from insects is reported than is usual at this 

 season of the year. The only insect doing any unusual 

 amount of damage is the cut worm, the various species of 

 which a})pear to be unusually prevalent in all sections, doing 

 the oreatest damaoe in the tobacco-orowine: reg-ion. Potato 

 bugs are the insect most commonly reported, but on the whole 

 they appear to be less numerous than usual. Canker worms 

 are reported by only 3 correspondents and tent caterpillars 

 by but 10. The brown-tail moth is reported by 13 corre- 

 spondents, from Cape Cod to the New Hampshire line. 

 Other insects mentioned are squash bugs, currant worms, 

 onion maggots, wire worms, horn flies, rose bugs, spittle 

 insects, plant lice, the curculio and gypsy moth caterpillars. 



Indian Corn. 

 Indian corn was reported as from a week to ten days late 

 at the time of making returns, but of good color and grow- 

 inof fast. With warm weather and the recent rains it should 

 soon make up the deflciency in growth. The earl}^ planted 

 fields show poor germination and an uneven stand, owing to 

 cokl weather at time of planting, but later ones came well, 

 have an even stand, and are but little behind the earlier 

 ones in development. There appears to be a considerable 

 increase in acreage over last year, when a small acreage was 

 reported, though perhaps not more than an average area is 

 under corn. 



The Hay Crop. 

 Haying had not begun at the time of malving returns, ex- 

 cept in isolated instances. The recent rains have greatly 

 stimulated the growth of grass, and it is reported to be 

 rapidly making up lost ground, due to cold and dry weather 



