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are looking finely. Market-garden crops are little raised. Dairy 

 products are less in quantity, with better prices ; cows scarce and 

 high. Pasturage is looking well. Prospect good for wild berries; 

 apples abundant; pears, plums and peaches scarce. 



Petersham (S. B. Cook) . — Striped squash bugs and potato bugs 

 are doing some damage. The corn acreage is larger than last year, 

 and it is of good color, though small. Haying has not begun, 

 but the prospect is for a good crop. Acreage of early potatoes 

 about as usual, and crop growing finely. Yield and price of 

 market-garden crops about as usual, with good prospects for later 

 ones. Quantity of dairy products fully up to former years, prices 

 about the same; cows rather scarce and high. Pastures are in 

 first-rate condition. Tiie pr9mise for all fruits except peaches and 

 pears is excellent, and all berries bloomed abundantly. 



Pliilbpston (A. D. Clifford). — Insects are not very numerous 

 as yet. Indian corn is backward, but the acreage is rather larger 

 than usual. Haying has not yet begun, but the prospect for the 

 crop is fair. There is about an average acreage of early potatoes, 

 which are looking well. Yield and price of early market-garden 

 crops about average; early cabbages looking well. Dairy cows 

 are scarce and high. Pasturage is in good condition. There are 

 not many berries and fruits, excepting apples, grown in this vicinity. 



Gardner {^ A. F. Johnson). — Indian corn is late, the growth 

 being slow, because of cold nights ; slight increase in acreage. 

 No haying done yet ; outlook for the crop fair. No changes in 

 the acreage of early potatoes, and they are looking well. Early 

 market-garden crops are about as usual in yield and price. There 

 is no perceptible change in the quantity and price of dairy products. 

 Pasturage is in good condition. There will be a fair crop of 

 api^les 



Harvard (John S. Preston), r— Tent caterpillars are more plen- 

 tiful tlian for a long time. Corn is short and yellow, owing to the 

 cool weather. Some are cutting a little hay, and the prospect is 

 for a fair crop. There is about the usual acreage of early potatoes, 

 and tlioy are looking well. Early market-garden crops have not 

 come on very well as yet ; prices better tlian usual. The only dairy 

 product in this locality is milk, and the price is better than in the 

 past few years ; good dairy cows are not very plenty, and the price 

 is well up. Pastures are looking better than usual at this time. 

 Fall apples are looking well ; cherries, strawberries, raspberries 

 Hud blackberries promise well. 



Bolton (H. E. Bahcock). — Potato bugs and tent caterpillars 

 are very plenty. Corn is backward, owing to cold nights ; acreage 

 rather above the average. A few have coinmenced haying, with 



