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in price. Pastures are getting pretty dry for June; most of them 

 are pretty well grown up to brush. Not much damage by frost. 



Blandford (Enos W. Boise). — Tent caterpillars and potato 

 beetles are very plentiful. Indian corn is small, but a full stand, 

 with a normal acreage. Haying has not begun; prospect for a full 

 crop is not good. Early potatoes are about a normal acreage, but 

 it is too early to prophesy as to the crop. All garden crops are late ; 

 without rain the yield will be small. There is a good quantity of 

 dairy products and the price is above the average. The supply of 

 cows about as usual. Pasturage is good at present. Strawberries 

 and raspberries are a full crop and all wild berries set well. Frosts 

 about the 10th to the middle of the month on low lands cut down all 

 garden crops. 



Russell (E. D. Parks). — Tent caterpillars, elm-leaf beetles and 

 potato bugs are most injurious. Indian corn is looking well, but is 

 two weeks behind a normal year, with the usual acreage. Haying 

 has just begun, with prospect for a normal crop. The usual acreage 

 for early potatoes; the crop looks quite promising. But little done 

 in market gardening in this section. Gardens are backward. Dairy 

 products are fully up to average in price. Cows are scarce and high. 

 Condition of pasturage is above an average. Strawberries are quite 

 a good crop. No damage by frosts to speak of. 



West Springfield (N. T. Smith). — Potato beetles have done seri- 

 ous damage in some tomato fields by eating out the center of plants. 

 Corn is backward on account of late planting and cold winds; acre- 

 age about as usual. Very little grass has been cut. The prospect is 

 for an average crop, but not as great as early indications promised. 

 Early potatoes are looking well; there is little change in acreage. 

 Bugs are plentiful. Early market-garden crops are avei'age as re- 

 gards yield and price, with good prospects with seasonable rains. 

 Milk is in good demand, and a June surplus is not apparent; sells 

 at 4V2 cents per quart at farm. Good cows are scarce and price is 

 high. Pasturage is average in condition, but needs rain. Straw- 

 berries are below the average; raspberries and blackbemes set 

 heavily. Two of the large market gardeners installed irrigation 

 plants the past winter, but I do not know name of system. No frost 

 to do any damage. 



Agawam (J. G. Burt). — The potato bug is the most injurious. 

 Corn is rather backward; about the same or a little more in acreage. 

 Haying has begun, with the prospect for a medium crop. Acreage 

 of potatoes is less and promise is for a light crop. Market-garden 

 crops are about the same as usual; prospect is for a light crop, if 

 we have no rain. Quantity and price of dairy products are about 

 the same. The supply of dairy cows is as usual. The condition of 

 pasturage is good. Berries are a good crop, but apples and pears 

 promise light crops. There are two irrigation plants here. In the 



