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5. How do potatoes compare with the normal in yield 

 and quality? 



6. What is the prospect for root crops, celery and other 

 late market-garden crops ? 



7. How have apples, pears, peaches, grapes and cranberries 

 turned out ? 



8. Has there been injury from frost, and, if so, on what 

 dates did it occur ? 



Returns were received from 135 correspondents, from 

 which the following summary has been made up : — 



Indian Cokn, 

 The warm and sunny weather of September, with entire 

 absence of killing frosts, up to the time of making returns, 

 enabled Indian corn to mature well in almost all sections. 

 The crop appears to have been somewhat below the normal 

 in Berkshire County and in some of the towns of higher 

 altitude elsewhere in the State, but in other sections it ap- 

 proached very close to the normal, both for grain and stover. 

 In the Connecticut valley, one of the principal corn-growing 

 sections, the crop seems to have been unusually good. Every- 

 where that the crop was planted on well-manured land, early 

 in the season, and well cultivated during the growing season, 

 it has done well. 



RowEN AND Fall Feed. 

 There was little rowen in most sections, except on new- 

 seeded and fertile fields, and even there it was much lighter 

 than it would have been with seasonable rains. In south- 

 eastern Massachusetts, however, the rowen crop appears to 

 be in excess of the normal for that section, due to showers 

 in midsummer, which were entirely local. This section of 

 the State is the one which usually suffers most from 

 drought, and a normal crop of rowen for that section would 

 be considerably below the normal for central and western 

 counties. Feed in pastures has been kept green by the fre- 

 quent light showers, and there is less complaint of failing 

 pastures than would be expected from the other effects of 



