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PLYMOUTH COUNTY. 



Halifax. — We have an excess of moisture here, and farmers 

 are very much discouraged. It is impossible to work all kinds of 

 land except sand. Many farmers have not planted their pota- 

 toes yet, and those that have will have to do it over again. 



Geo. W. Hayward. 



Kingston. — The weather this month has been cold nights, with 

 but few warm days and plenty of rain. From the 1st to the 11th 

 frost most every night. A light frost the 21st, which did no 

 damage. Farmers here are having a greater demand for home 

 products, and the outlook is more favorable than it was ten years 



ago. 



J. H. CUSHMAN. 



Marshfield. — A few farms are being taken by people seeking 

 quiet from the city. Stock is increasing in Plymouth County. 

 Inland it is often kept for the ultimate purpose of improving the 

 land and making the farm more productive. This season seems 

 very much like the two preceding. My men are now (27th) 

 cutting a heavy crop of orchard grass raised from kelp and sea 

 plants and seeded four years ago. 



Geo. J. Peterson. 



WORCESTER COUNTY. 



Berlin. — The season has been very wet and cold, and a good 

 deal of land at the present time is too wet to be worked. Yester- 

 day, May 26, was the first time I ever heard a mowing machine 

 running in May. May 16 a serious hailstorm occurred, taking a 

 strip through our town one and a half miles wide, doing much 

 damage to growing crops and fruit, cleaning the pear and peach 

 trees mostly of fruit. 



P. B. South WICK. 



Douglas. — Grass is looking extraordinarily well for the time of 

 the year. All kinds of fruit ti'ees blossomed very full. Currants 

 and strawberries have been a mass of bloom. The weather has 

 been very wet, so planting has been done no earlier than usual. 

 Most of us are through. All wish the weather might be drier. 



Geo. M. Wallis. 



