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as to grain, but ensilage corn was very badly cut by a severe frost on 

 September 14. Pastures look well now after the rains, and quite a 

 crop of short rowen is being cut. About the usual amount of fall 

 seeding has been done and it is in good condition. Potatoes are light 

 in yield but of good quality. Apples dropped badly and the crop 

 is light, 



Conway (L. T. Hopkins). — Indian corn is about 75 per cent 

 of a normal crop. Rowen and fall feed are below the average owing 

 to dry weather. About the usual amount of fall seeding will be put 

 in and the early sown looks well. Potatoes are half a crop, but of 

 No. 1 quality. Apples are a light crop ; pears good ; grapes heavy. 

 The frost of the 14th caught most corn uncut, and the fields are now 

 white; about one-fifth of the acreage of tobacco was uncut, and 

 some have plowed it under while others have harvested it. 



Whately (C. L. Crafts). — Corn is about an average crop. There 

 is no rowen or fall feed. No fall seeding has been done to amount 

 to anything, the price of seed being so high as to discourage it. The 

 onion crop is about 30 per cent of the normal in yield, but of good 

 quality and they have sold well. Potatoes are about half a crop of 

 good quality. Apples are half a crop; pears, peaches and grapes 

 100 per cent. The heavy frost of September 14 killed everything. 

 Perhaps 10 per cent of the tobacco acreage was uncut; com had not 

 been cut at all, owing to the wet weather, which made tobacco harvest 

 three weeks late. 



Sunderland (Geo. P. Smith). — Indian corn is 90 per cent of a 

 normal crop, being injured by frost. There is very little rowen, but 

 fall feed is fair. The usual amount of fall seeding has been done 

 and looks well. Onions are a light crop, and while some are good 

 in quality, others are green and late. Potatoes were a very small yield 

 for early fields, but the late ones are better matured. The prospect 

 is only fair for late market-garden crops. Apples light; pears 

 good; some grapes. The tobacco crop was much injured by frost 

 on the 14th, some 50 acres being destroyed. 



Montague (A. M. Lyman). — Indian corn is about a two-thirds 

 crop. Rowen and fall feed are not more than half the usual average. 

 Onions are not over half a crop, and are undersized. More fall 

 seeding than usual has been done, and it is looking well. Potatoes 

 run small, hardly half a crop, but of good quality. The prospect 

 is good for root crops, celery and other late market-garden croi3s. 

 Apples are about half a crop, and the sprayed fruit is of good 

 quality. The frost of the 14th injured corn severely, and destroyed 

 one-fourth of the tobacco crop and much garden stuff. 



Neio Salem (Daniel Ballard). — Corn would have been about 

 normal, but was much injured by frost. Recent warm rains have 

 brought rowen and fall feed forward to nearly average condition. 

 About the usual amount of fall seeding has been done, and is in 



