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and the supply and price of dain-' cows, compare with for- 

 mer years ? 



8. What is the condition of pasturage in your locality? 



9. What is the outlook for such fruits and berries as are 

 grown for market, naming them ? 



Returns were received from 158 correspondents, and from 

 these returns the following summary has been made up : — 



Insects. 

 Insects appear to be unusually prevalent, although the 

 damage reported as done by them was not excessive in 

 any case. Potato bugs are the insects most commonly re- 

 ported, with cut worms a close second ; over a third of the 

 correspondents reporting damage from cut worms, — an 

 unusualh' large proportion. Rose bugs and squash bugs, 

 both the black and the striped varieties, also appear to be 

 more numerous than usual. Only 2 correspondents report 

 damage from canker worms and but 5 from tent caterpillars ; 

 while 9 speak of the brown-tail moth caterpillars and 5 of the 

 gypsy moth caterpillars. Other insects reported as doing 

 damage are currant worms, wire worms, white grubs, onion 

 maggots, elm leaf beetles, spittle insects, cabbage flies, 

 spiny elm caterpillars, cranberry vine worms, asparagus 

 beetles, Hessian flies, the San Jose scale, cattle flies, the 

 plum curculio and the army worm. 



Indian Corn. 

 Indian corn was in the main planted rather later than usual, 

 owing to cold weather during May, and this, with cool 

 weather since its germination, makes the crop late, probably 

 from ten days to two weeks, at the time of making returns. 

 With seasonable weather it should soon make up for this 

 deficiency in growth, as the stand is reported to be good and 

 the crop thrifty, with good color. There would appear to 

 be a decrease in acreage over last year, due in a large 

 measure to the delay in planting. 



