6. How do the quantity and price of dairy products, and 

 the supply and price of dairy cows, compare with former 

 years ? 



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



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

 grown for market, naming them? 



Returns have been received from 170 correspondents, and 

 from them the following summary has been made up : — 



Insects. 

 Insects appear to have done but little damage as yet, the 

 cold weather having, perhaps, operated to hold them in 

 check. Potato bugs are as prevalent as usual, but are not 

 reported as doing any particular damage. Other insects 

 most complained of are striped cucumber beetles, squash 

 bugs, rose bugs, canker worms, cut worms and tent cater- 

 pillars, from 9 to 25 correspondents reporting the presence 

 of each. Other insects mentioned are codling moths, currant 

 worms, elm leaf beetles, cabbage worms, wire worms, horn 

 flies, asparagus beetles, white grubs, brown tail moths, 

 gypsy moths, onion maggots, the San Jose scale, the plum 

 curculio, the pea vine louse and a small black flea beetle on 

 potato vines. 



Indian Corn. 



Indian corn is generally reported as very small and back- 

 ward for the season, owing to the cool weather of the month. 

 There is little complaint of the stand or color, however, and 

 with warm weather it will doubtless come forward rapidly. 

 There is a notable increase in acreage this year, a 20 per 

 cent increase seeming a conservative estimate for the State 

 as a whole. 



The Hay Crop. 



Haying had hardly begun at the time of making returns 

 except in south-eastern sections, where it was rather more 

 advanced. By the date of issue it should be well under way 

 in most sections. The crop will be short all over the State, 

 although the reports indicate that it was much improved by 

 the rains of the first half of the month. The rains were also 

 of much benefit to grass roots, and it is not likely that mow- 

 ings have suffered as much permanent injury as the short 

 crop would ordinarily indicate. 



