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and then a gypsy moth. Planting is getting along quite well. Help 

 is scarce, but there are plenty of green Portuguese to be had. Wages 

 average $20 per month with board and $40 per month without board. 

 There are no marked changes in the acreage of farm crops. Many 

 have gone into making small cranberry bogs. 



Falmouth (D. R. Wicks). — The season is still behind the normal, 

 but vegetation is pushing ahead rapidly. Mowings and pastures are 

 looking finely, but we need rain; fall seeding wintered well. There 

 is a full bloom of all kinds of large and small fruits, and no frost. Cur- 

 rant worms are doing some damage. Early planting is entirely com- 

 pleted. There is no American help to be had, all Portuguese. Wages 

 range from $1.75 to $2 for eight hours' work. There are no marked 

 changes in the acreage of farm crops. 



Dennis (Joshua Crowell). — The season is about a normal one. 

 Pastures and mowings are looking well. There is a full bloom for all 

 fruits except Baldwin apples. Tent caterpillars are doing some damage. 

 Planting will be completed this week. There is the usual supply of 

 help, and half of it is good help. Wages range from $30 to $35 per 

 month with board and average $2 per day without. There will be 

 an increase in the acreage of corn. Asparagus culture is having quite 

 a boom. 



Harwich (Ambrose N. Doane). — The season is about a normal 

 one. Pastures and mowings promise fairly well ; very little fall seeding 

 here. The fruit bloom is good, with no injury from frost. No insects 

 of any account have made an appearance as yet. Planting is pro- 

 gressing about as usual. Farm help is scarce, and there is very little 

 good help. Wages average $25 per month with board and from $35 

 to $40 per month without board. The acreage of the usual crops 

 will not vary much from former years. 



Wellfleet (E. S. Jacobs). — The season is a very good one to date. 

 The outlook is for a much larger hay crop than in recent years. There 

 is no frost and an abundant fruit bloom, both for apples and small 

 fruits. Tent caterpillars are doing some damage. All fields have 

 been planted except a few low, wet fields, and planting is ten days in 

 advance of last year. Farm help is very scarce and very poor. Wages 

 average $20 per month with board and $30 to $35 per month without 

 board. There will be no changes of moment in the acreage of farm 

 crops. 



Truro (John B. Dyer). — The season is a fairly good one. Pastures 

 and mowings promise well, with reasonable rainfall; very little fall 

 seeding hereabouts. The fruit bloom was good, particularly for 

 peaches. Insects are about as numerous as usual. Planting is pro- 

 gressing well. There are few farms here requiring help, and that 

 mostly employed is young boys, from fifteen to twenty years of age, 

 fairly good for their kind. Wages range from $15 to $20 per month 

 with board and 15 to 20 cents per hour without board. There is no 

 special change in the acreage of farm crops. 



