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used on many bogs. Help is hired mostly by the day, and is 

 scarce at from $1.50 to $1.75 per day. The season has been cold 

 and backward. 



East Dennis (Joshua Crowell). — The season is about ten 

 days late. Insects are not as plenty as usual, perhaps owing to 

 the lateness of the season. The potato beetle is beginning to 

 appear, and also the cranberry vine worm. First-class help is 

 scarce, at about $25 per month. ' The weather forecasts printed 

 in the daily papers reach us rather late. If weather forecasts and 

 frost warnings could be received from twelve to twenty-four hoars 

 in advance, they would benefit our farmers. 



DUKES COUNTY. 



West Tisbury (Wm. J. Rotch ) — The present season is some- 

 what backward. First-class help is scarce. Our farmers employ 

 many Portuguese, many of whom are fair help, at from $10 to $15 

 per month, always with board. Farmers in this vicinity do not 

 regard the weather forecasts, as printed in the daily papers, as 

 especially valuable to them. 



NANTUCKET COUNTY. 



Nantucket (Chas. W. Gardner). — The present season is a 

 month later than last year, on account of cold rains. Potato bugs 

 are doing the most damage of any insect. Picking by hand is the 

 principal measure resorted to to check them. The farmers in this 

 vicinity think the weather forecasts in the daily papers are just 

 right. It is very hard to get decent help. 



