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on low lands. No insects have appeared as yet. Planting is very late. 

 Farm help is not plenty, and good help is hard to find. Wages range 

 from $20 to S25 per month with board and average SI. 50 per day 

 without board. There will be no changes in the acreage of the usual 

 crops. 



Greenwich (Walter H. Glazier). — The season is about a normal 

 one. Pastures and mowings promise excellently; fall seeding wintered 

 well. Apple trees will have a fair bloom; no injury from frost. No in- 

 sects have done any damage as yet. But little planting has been done. 

 It is almost impossible to get help, even by the day. Wages average 

 $1.50 per day without board. Stock is looking well. There will be 

 little change in the acreage of farm crops. 



Pelham (John L. Brewer). — The season is cold and very late. 

 There is a fair prospect for pastures and mowings; fall seeding win- 

 tered finely. A light bloom of apples and pears; no peach bloom; 

 plums promise well. There are a few tent caterpillars, but insects 

 have done little damage. Planting is ahead of the average for time 

 of year. Farm help is scarce, almost all being at work lumbering; 

 help good enough when sober. Wages average from $1.50 to $1.75 

 per day without board. More potatoes have been planted than usual. 



Amherst (Prof. Wm. P. Brooks). — The season has been cold, and 

 vegetation is from seven to ten days late. Pastures and mowings 

 look unusually well; fall seeding wintered perfectly. Apple bloom 

 heavy; pears little grown; no bloom on peaches or Japanese plums; 

 other plums hea\'y bloom ; small fruits promise well. No insects have 

 appeared as yet. Planting is progressing well, as weather has been 

 favorable for work. Farm help is scarce, and but little of it satisfac- 

 tory. Wages range from $15 to $30 per month with board; board 

 usually reckoned at from $14 to $18 per month. No particular changes 

 in the acreage of farm cro^DS. 



Hadley (H. C, Russell), — The season is ten days late. New seed 

 looks well; pastures and mowings good. Bloom of small fruits good, 

 and apples especially good. No insects have appeared. Planting is 

 late, owing to cold weather. Farm help is scarce, and wages higher 

 than ever. Wages average $25 per month with board and $1.50 per 

 day without board. There is a decrease in the acreage of onions and a 

 slight increase in that of tobacco; other crops about as usual. 



Hatfield (Thaddeus Graves). — The season is two weeks later than 

 usual. The promise of pastures and mowings is good, and fall seeding 

 wintered well. Full bloom of apjDles; none of peaches; others back- 

 ward. Planting is two weeks behind the average. Farm help is scarce, 

 and perhaps one-third of it is good help. Wages average $25 per 

 month with board and $38 per month without board. There will be 

 no marked changes in the acreage of the usual farm crops. 



Williamsburg (F. C. Richards). — The season has been cold and 

 backward, and is ten days later than normal. Fall seeding wintered 



