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good quality. Root crops and late market-garden crops promise 

 medium yields. Apples are a two-thirds crop; pears full; peaches 

 hght; cranberries light. No rains have fallen to reach the springs 

 during the entire summer, and wells and springs are very low. 



Tewksbury (G. E. Ceosby). — Indian corn is a two-thirds crop. 

 There is very little rowen and fall feed is hght. But little fall seeding 

 has been done. Onions are from one-half to three-fourths of a normal 

 crop. Potatoes are light in yield and fair in quality. The prospect 

 is fair for root crops and late market-garden crops. Apples are a good 

 crop where the trees were sprayed; few pears or peaches. No damage 

 from frost to speak of. 



Lexington (Howard M. Munroe). — Corn is not up to the normal, 

 some fields extra good, others poor. There is very little rowen and 

 fall feed is light. But little fall seeding has been done, and that put 

 in needs rain. Onions are small and the crop below normal. Potatoes 

 arc about an average crop, with no rot. Roots and celery will be 

 hght crops. Early apples are an extra good crop; late apples about 

 normal; pears and grapes below normal. The tomato crop was in- 

 jured by dry rot and blight. Squashes are a rather light crop of extra 

 good quaUty. Carrots are a light crop. No frost yet to do damage. 



Winchester (S. S. Symmes). — Rowen and fall feed are very much 

 below the average. Some fall seeding has been done, but the ground 

 was too dry for it to germinate. Onions are very small. Potatoes are 

 rather small but of good quality. The prospect for root crops and 

 late market-garden crops is very poor, celery being especially small. 

 Apples and pears dropped a good deal. The ground is dry to a depth 

 of several feet; springs and brooks are totally dry. Apples and peaches 

 colored finely and are of good quahty. Squashes are the poorest crop 

 in many years. 



Weston (Henry L. Brow'n). — Indian corn is not much grown. 

 There is little rowen and fall feed is short. The usual amount of fall 

 seeding has not been done, owing to dry weather. Potatoes are a 

 fairly good yield and of good quality, but the acreage is much de- 

 creased. There will be a fair yield of roots; too dry for celery to do 

 well. Fall apples have been abundant, but small; no peaches; black 

 mould or fungous on pears affects the growth of the fruit, which is 

 small. No frost as yet. 



ESSEX COUNTY. 



Salisbury (Wesley Pettengill). — Indian corn is looking well ex- 

 cept a small part of the crop on very high ground. Rowen and fall 

 feed are light except on newly seeded fields. The ground has been 

 and is now so dry that but little fall seeding has been done. Early 

 potatoes show a light yield, late potatoes good crop; quality good, 

 no rot. It is rather dry for most late market-garden crops. Winter 



