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Rowen also suffered severely, the rains coming too late to 

 help it materially. Early fruits, with the exception of apples, 

 were a fair crop and late ones promised well until the severe 

 storms of the latter part of August. Apples were a very 

 short crop at best and at the close of the month appeared to 

 be nearly a total failure. Potatoes suffered severely from 

 drought and hardly promised an average crop. The yield of 

 market-garden crops was only fair but later ones promised to 

 be better. Corn was much damaged by the high winds and 

 an average crop was scarcely expected. Barley and oats were 

 full average crops, oats doing particularly well. Tobacco 

 suffered severely from drought both in yield and quality, 

 and it was thought that the crop would ftiU short of that 

 of 1892 in all respects. In general the month was not a 

 favorable one. 



Indian corn was severely injured by the gales of August, 

 and the returns of October 1 did not show over a three- 

 fourths crop on the average. Rowen suffered severely from 

 drought and was far from being an average crop, generally 

 ranfyino- from lio;ht to very lioht. Fall feed was much im- 

 proved but was hardly in average condition. Fully the 

 averaije amount of fall seedino; had been done and was in 

 good condition. Stable manure seemed to be the main 

 reliance in fall seeding. Onions were hardly an average 

 crop, having suffered from drought and the attacks of mag- 

 gots. Potatoes, except in Barnstable County, were below 

 an average yield, but the quality was generally reported 

 good, and only five complaints of rot were received. Root 

 crops generally promised well, most correspondents speaking 

 of the prospect as good or excellent. The apple crop was 

 very light in all sections, and in many localities proved a 

 total failure. The drop of the early season aad the severe 

 gales of August were the principal causes of failure. Cran- 

 berries were a full average crop, and possibly a little above 

 avera'ge, the correspondent for Barnstable referring to the 

 crop as the largest ever harvested. 



November 1, seventy-five correspondents reported root 

 crops to have been an average or more than average, and 

 twenty-six less than average. Nearly three-fourths of the 



