Small Fruits. 

 There is a very general complaint of raspberry canes 

 having been winter-killed, and the crop will be light. Gen- 

 erally the strawberry crop has been a good one. The cor- 

 respondent in Dighton reports strawberries the most disas- 

 trous failure in twenty years, while in the neighboring town 

 of Swanzey the crop is reported as heavy, but prices low, 

 and in Somerset the crop is reported as an average one. 

 Currants, blackberries, grapes, peaches and apples promise 

 to be good crops. Cherry crop not very good. Pears do 

 not promise well. 



Other Crops. 



Rye is reported as looking well in Dalton, Charlemont, 

 Southampton, Deerfield, Ludlow, Monson and Belchertown. 

 Oats are reported as looking well in Dalton, Rowe, Deer- 

 field, Ludlow, North Brookfield and Harvard. Oats are 

 reported as rusting in Southampton, Ludlow and Belcher- 

 town. Barley coming along fjist in Monson. Tobacco set- 

 ting is completed, and the crop has started well ; the acreage 

 is considerably above the average. From Arlington comes 

 the report, cabbages, beets and cucumbers look well, onion 

 crop very large, celery late. 



Insects. 

 Potato bugs are generally prevalent. Rose bugs are more 

 numerous and doing more damage than usual, especially in 

 "Worcester and Middlesex counties. The spittle insect is 

 common in Worcester County. Scattering reports of canker 

 worms, asparagus beetles, cut worms, tent caterpillars, cur- 

 rant worms, striped squash bugs, cabbage worms, codling 

 moths and fire worms have been received. 



TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL FOR THE WHOLE COUNTRY. 

 [FxiOM United States Weathek-Crop Bulletins ] 

 Ten days ending Jane 6. — Warmer than usual to the 

 eastward of the Mississippi valley, except along the south 

 Atlantic coast, where it was slightly cooler than usual. The 

 weather was colder than usual from the Mississippi valley 

 westward to the Pacific coast. The rainfall for the period 

 from May '2'6 to June G was generally in excess of the aver- 



