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are doing better than most crops. Prices for market-garden crops are 

 fair; where irrigation is possible conditions are good. The supply of 

 dairy products is lessening from year to year, but is sufficient; prices 

 fairly sustained. The condition of pasturage is better than could be 

 expected. Fruits are suffering badly from drought and apples are 

 dropping. 



Roioley (D. H. O'Brien). — Canker worms, gypsy and brown-tail 

 moths and striped squash bugs are doing damage. Corn is looking well 

 and the acreage is above the average. Haying has begun and the 

 prospect is that there will be less than a normal crop. The acreage of 

 early potatoes is about the same as in former years and a good crop is 

 promised. The yield of market-garden crops is about normal, but 

 prices have been low; prospect for late crops good. Quantity of dairy 

 products the same as usual and prices are a little higher ; cows average 

 the same. Pastures are in fair condition. Strawberries are good crop; 

 apples medium. Gypsy moths are increasing very noticeably. 



Topsfield (B. P. Pike). — Canker worms are doing some damage. 

 Very little Indian corn is raised here, but sweet corn and silo corn is 

 looking fairly well. Haying has begun and the crop will be very light. 

 Not as many potatoes will be harvested as in former years, owing to 

 drought. Prices have been about as usual for early market-garden 

 crops, but they have suffered from drought. Cows are about the same 

 as usual in price : milk five cents per can higher. Pastures are drying 

 up. Strawberries are drying up; other berries look well. 



NORFOLK COUNTY. 



Canton (Edwix Y. Kinsley). — Indian corn is looking very well, 

 with about the usual acreage planted. Haying has been in progress 

 for about two weeks and the crop is a little hghter than usual. All 

 potatoes look extremely well and the acreage is much above the 

 normal. Early market-garden crops have been injured by late frosts 

 in some places and prices average fair. Milk is in demand at prices in 

 advance of recent years, thirty-eight to forty cents per can at the farm ; 

 good dairy cows high in price. Pastures are growing very dry in con- 

 sequence of hot and dry weather for the past three weeks. All fruits 

 and berries promise good crops; strawberries somewhat injured by 

 drought. 



Walpole (Edward L. Shepard). — Potato bugs and rose bugs are 

 doing damage. Coi'ii looks very well with the same acreage as usual. 

 Haying has begun, with about 80 per cent of a normal crop. Early 

 potatoes are looking well, with about the usual acreage. There is an 

 average yield of early market-garden crops and prices are about as last 

 year. The price of dairy products is the same as last year ; cows scarce 

 and higher in price. Pastures are about in normal condition. Straw- 

 berries are a fair crop and blackberries are looking well. 



Millis (E. F. Richardson). — Potato bugs are doing some damage. 



