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dairy products. While the profits in raising milk, it being the 

 chief dairy product here, may not be as great as ten years ago, the 

 ready market close to our door for the sale of the crops above 

 named makes the outlook as favorable as ten years ago. 



Frequent showers during the past two weeks have given the grass 

 crop a favorable start. 



G. "W. Sanderson. 



Sherborn. — The canning of corned beef is a new enterprise 

 here, that bids fair to become something of a business, but the 

 beef used will be largely a Western product. The outlook with 

 us is not encouraging. Farmers lack confidence, and are not 

 planting as largely as in previous years. Continued wet weather 

 has a tendency to dampen the ardor and retard work. Never 

 have known our people as a whole to feel as poor as at the 

 present time. Our usual money crops failed last year. 



N. B. Douglas. 



NANTUCKET COUNTY. 



Nantucket. — Never saw our little island with such a good look 

 for prosperity in the farming line as at present time ; and for any 

 young man that means business and wants to farm it, here is a 

 chance, for the farmers here do not produce half enough to supply 

 our summer boarders, and farms are cheap now, and the land is as 

 good as in any county in the State. 



C. W. Gardner. 



NORFOLK COUNTY. 



South Weymouth. — The month of May has been colder than 

 usual. Fruit trees and grass are fully up to the average ; peas, 

 corn, beans and other vegetables are not. Caterpillars are 

 abundant on apple trees, and especially so on wild cherry trees. 



J. G. HUTCHINS. 



West Dedham. — Caterpillars are very plenty, and if every 

 grange and farmers' club would appoint a committee in each town 

 to take a day and go through the town and burn the caterpillars 

 that are on bushes and trees by the roadside, I think it would be a 

 great help to the community, for no one takes any interest in 

 nests on highways. 



S. C. French. 



