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crop of good quality. The weather has been too dry for market- 

 garden crops and potatoes, and prices are higher than usual. There 

 will not be a large crop of apples, many trees not bearing any; 

 pears, peaches and plums good. Pasturage is all dried up on high 

 ground and we have to feed at the barn. Rye, oats and barley were 

 fairly good as forage crops. No new apple orchards of any size 

 haA'e been set out. Squashes are looking well. 



Ameshury (F. W. Sargent). — There are very few insects at 

 present, squash bugs being noticeably scarce. Indian corn is below 

 the normal in condition; 20 per cent of the crop is grown for en- 

 silage. The hay crop was of good quality and the tonnage was 

 about two-thirds of the normal. Forage crops have suffered from 

 drought at sowing time. Market-garden crops are in poor condition, 

 with no rain for six weeks; potatoes are not bottoming. All fruits 

 are light in yield. Pastures are dry and burned. Rye, oats and 

 barley are sown only for forage and are not in favorable condition. 

 ■ No new apple orchards of any amount have been set out. 



Methuen (Frederick A. Russell). — Brown-tail and gypsy moths 

 are depositing the eggs in large quantities. Indian corn is very 

 poor especially on light land ; a large proportion is grown for en- 

 silage. Hay was about a two-thirds crop and much of it was badly 

 dried before being cut. Fewer forage crops than usual were put in 

 and they are in poor condition. Market-garden crops are very light 

 and poor; potatoes extremely poor; prices high. There will be very 

 few apples; pears plenty but small; peaches and plums plenty; 

 few quinces, grapes and cranberries. Pasturage was never in poorer 

 condition. Rye, oats and barley are very light crops. In 1910 one 

 apple orchard of thirty acres was set out, also several smaller lots. 



Hamilton (George R. Dodge). — Indian com has come along 

 finely but is now showing the effects of drought; 50 per cent of the 

 crop is grown for ensilage. Hay lacks 33 per cent of a full crop 

 but is of good quality. About the usual acreage of forage crops 

 was put in, but the yield will fall short 25 per cent. Market-garden 

 crops are short and prices high. Apples, peal's, peaches and plums 

 will be short crops, ha^dng dropped heavily. Upland pastures are 

 dried up and lowlands are yielding a fair amount of feed. Rye, 

 oats and barley, as forage crops, have given two-thirds yields. One 

 orchard of two and one-half acres was set in 1910. 



Topsfield (B. P. Pike). — Gypsy moths are doing damage. In- 

 dian com is late and uneven; 75 per cent of the crop goes into the 

 silo. The hay crop was 60 per cent of the normal in yield and less 

 than average in quality. Forage crops are about the same as usual 

 in acreage and in poor condition. Early potatoes are a very poor 

 crop ; other market-garden crops short and prices high. Apples 

 will be half a crop; pears fair; peaches short; grapes good. The 



