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average. The acreage of early potatoes is increased about 10 per 

 cent, and the crop is looking unusually well. Cabbages are look- 

 ing well ; other market-garden stuff good. Quantity of dairy prod- 

 ucts about as usual, prices high ; cows high and scarce. Pasturage 

 is in good condition. The outlook for fruits and berries is fair. 



Erving (Chas. F. Clark). — Potato bugs are doing some dam- 

 age. Corn is backward, with about the usual acreage. Haying 

 has begun, but the crop will not be a large one. The acreage of 

 early potatoes is greater than usual, and the prospect for the crop 

 is a good one. No market-garden crops marketed as yet ; prospect 

 good. The quantity and price of dairy products and the supply 

 and price of dairy cows are about the same as usual. Pasturage 

 is in good condition. There will be a medium apple crop. 



New Salem (Daniel Ballard). — Currant worms and elm-leaf 

 beetles are doing some damage. Corn is very backward, owing 

 to cool weather ; acreage greater than usual. Haying has not 

 begun to any extent, and the prospects for the crop have increased 

 very much of late. The acreage of early potatoes is about the 

 same as usual, and they are looking well. The quantity of dairy 

 products is about average, with prices higher ; cows about the same 

 as usual in price, beef cows a little higher. Pastures have im- 

 proved very much during the frequent rains. There is a fair crop 

 of strawberries, except where frost killed the bloom on low lands ; 

 blackberries bloomed full. 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY. 



Enfield (D. O. Chickering). — Potato bugs promise to be very 

 plenty. Indian corn is quite backward, and crows have been 

 troublesome ; acreage about as usual. Haying has not begun ; the 

 crop is late, but promises well. Acreage of early potatoes about 

 the same as usual ; they look well, and promise a heavy crop. 

 Quantity of dairy products about the same as usual ; prices rather 

 better. Pastures are looking well at present. Strawberries are 

 doing well ; apples promise a heavy crop ; cherries and plums will 

 be a failure. 



Belchertoivn (H. C. West). — Cut worms are doing some dam- 

 age. The acreage of Indian corn is increased 40 per cent ; a few 

 fields are in fine condition, but it is generally very uneven. Very 

 little haying has been done, and the prospect is for a light crop. 

 Acreage of early potatoes 25 per cent greater than usual, and vines 

 looking remarkably well. Early market-garden crops are rather 

 late, with a fair yield and good prices. Dairy products are rather 

 below in quantity, and correspondingly up in price. Pasturage is 



