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There was a full fruit bloom, but damage from frost on the 21st. 

 Planting is progressing well. Farm help is scarce. The acreage 

 of the customary farm crops will be about the same as usual. 



Deerjield (H. A. Wells). — The season is rather a late one. 

 Pastures and mowings are looking well, and fall seeding never 

 wintered better. All fruit trees bloomed fairly well, though not 

 full ; it is still uncertain how much they suffered from frost. There 

 is no damage from insects. Planting is nearly completed. Good 

 help is scarce, especially good teamsters ; Polish help plenty. 

 "Wages range from §22 to $25 per month with board, and average 

 $1.50 per day without board. There is an increase in the acreage 

 of potatoes ; that of corn about the same as usual. 



Sunderland (Geo. P. Smith). — April and May have been rather 

 cold and dry. Grass and pastures look well, and fall seeding 

 wintered well. Apple bloom uneven ; pears and plums light; not 

 many peaches or small fruits here. No insects are doing damage 

 at present. Corn and potato planting is finished, and tobacco set- 

 ting has just begun. Farm help is scarce, more so than usual, 

 but two-thirds of it is fairly good. Wages average §21 per month 

 with board, and $1.50 per day without board. No change in the 

 acreage of farm crops. A New York party has bought a farm, 

 intending to raise 50 acres of tobacco. 



Erving (Chas. F. Clark). — The season has been rather more 

 backward than usual. Pastures and mowings look promising, and 

 fall seeding wintered well. There is a fair bloom of small fruits 

 and a light bloom of winter apples ; no damage from frosts. In- 

 sects are doing very little damage. Planting is progressing rather 

 slowly. Farm help is scarce, and half of it good help. Wages 

 average Si per day with board, and $1.50 per day without board. 

 There are no marked changes in the acreage of the usual farm 

 crops. 



New Salem (Daniel Ballard). — The season is about a nor- 

 mal one at present. The promise for pastures and mowings is 

 very favorable now that the dry spell is broken ; fall seeding 

 wintered well. There was quite a full bloom of apples, especially 

 Greenings ; full bloom also of pears and small fruits ; some injury 

 by frost on low lands. Tent caterpillars are doing some damage. 

 Planting is progressing rapidly. Farm help is scarce, with. about 

 the usual proportion of good help. Wages range from $18 to §26 

 per month with board, and from $1.50 upward per day without 

 board. About the usual amount of the usual crops will be planted. 



