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forage crops will be increased. Early potatoes and market-garden 

 crops are not raised to any amount. Quantity and price of dairy 

 products and dairy cows about the same as usual. Pastures are 

 improving rapidly since the rains. Apples promise a good crop. 



Petersham (D. F. Bigelow). — Yellow squash bugs and potato 

 beetles are doing some damage. Indian com is small, and needs 

 cultivation ; acreage about the same as usual. Haying has not yet 

 begun, and there is prospect of a fair crop. The acreage of early 

 potatoes is about the same as usual, and the crop promises well. 

 Early market-garden crops are about average in yield and price. 

 The acreage of forage crops will not be increased. Dairy products 

 bring the same price as usual ; dairy cows in easy supply. Pas- 

 turage has been poor, but must now improve. The outlook for 

 apples is good. 



Royalston (C. A. Stimson). — Potato bugs and squash bugs 

 are doing some damage. Indian corn is poor and backward, with 

 the usual acreage. No haying has been done as yet, but there is 

 a fair crop in prospect. The acreage of forage crops will not be 

 increased. There is about the usual acreage of early potatoes, 

 but they have not made a normal growth. Butter is higher than 

 formerly, quantity about average ; dairy cows in good demand, at 

 good prices. Berries promise to give good yields. 



Wiyichendon (Arthur Stockwell) . — Potato bugs are doing 

 some damage. Corn is looking well. Haying has not yet begun. 

 There will be about the usual acreage of forage crops. The acreage 

 of early potatoes is about the same as usual. Early market-garden 

 crops compare well with former years in yield and price. Dairy 

 products and dairy cows are about the same as usual as regards 

 supply and price. Pasturage is in fine condition. All kinds of 

 berries will give good yields. 



Gardner (A. F. Johnson). — Insects are not doing as much 

 d*mage as usual, and no tent caterpillars have appeared. Corn is 

 very late and small ; no marked change in acreage. Haying has 

 not yet begun ; crop poor, but should improve in the next two 

 weeks. There is no marked change in the quantity and price of 

 dairy products, or the supply and price of dairy cows. Pastures 

 have taken a new start since the rains came. 



Princeton (A. O. Tvleu). — Rose bugs and potato bugs are 

 doing some damage. Indian corn is backward, but growing well 

 now ; acreage about the same as usual. Haying has not begun ; 

 there is a prospect of a fair crop since the rains, but not as heavy 

 a one as that of last year. The acreage of forage crops will be a 

 little increased. Early potatoes do not show quite as large an 

 acreage as usual, but promise well. Dairy cows bring about the 



