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Hardwick. — Our pastures have nearly recovered from the 

 drouth of the past. Last year and this being wet has settled the 

 question " How to reclaim our pastures." 



George Manly. 



Harvard. — Season cold and very wet. 



W. H. Fairbanks. 



Holden. — Corn came up well. Crows a great nuisance. Potato 

 bugs very plenty. AVe are having very wet, cold weather. Hay- 

 making almost impossible. 



Geo. 8. Graham. 



Northbo rough. — Very little haying yet done, on account of poor 

 hay weather ; grass of all kinds is fast coming to maturity ; newly 

 seeded fields are lodging badly. Oats grown mostly as a forage 

 crop. 



J. L. Allen. 



Petersham. — Apple-tree insects, striped squash bugs and cut 

 worms all fewer than usual. Potato bugs 100-}-. Weather humid 

 and warm. Severe hail storm June 15, covering small area at 

 centre of town. 



S. 1». Cook. 



Sterling. — Potato bugs very numerous. Grasshoppers abundant. 

 The spring has been very wet, consequently the crops are very 

 backward. The hay crop bids fair to be abundant. 



Henry S. Sawyer. 



Templeton. — Spring opened extremely late, and very wet 

 weather during May. Farmers unusually late in planting. Grass 

 extra in quantity. Since the first of June the weather has been 

 propitious, and vegetation is pushing rapidly ahead. The potato 

 beetle is our greatest insect pest. 



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