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crop is 60 per cent of normal; no increase in acreage recently. 

 Erfurt cauliflower is successfully grown in this locality. Not much 

 celery raised here. Sweet corn, acreage normal, same as last year; 

 Washington vaiiety planted. No lettuce raised here, and only a few 

 onions. Tomato acreage normal; Bonny Best and Stone being most 

 used varieties. Cutworms are not doing much damage here, but 

 asparagus bugs are very numerous. No noticeable frost damage 

 since May 26. No irrigation. 



Edward R. Farrar, Lincoln {Middlesex County). — The aspara- 

 gus crop is 90 per cent of normal, 95 per cent of 1912. Usual 

 acreage of string and shell beans has been planted; germination, 

 80. The acreage of beets is normal; early crop prospect, 75; late 

 crop, prospective acreage, 70. Early sown carrots are not quite as 

 forward as usual. Sweet corn acreage normal; present condition of 

 crop, 90. Pea acreage is normal, as also is the tomato acreage; 

 present condition of tomato crop is 80. Cabbage root maggots and 

 squash bugs are doing serious damage in this vicinity. No notice- 

 able frost damage since May 26. 



Henry Ltnde, Melrose (Middlesex County). — The asparagus 

 crop is 110 as compared Avith normal, same as last year; no recent 

 increase in acreage. Normal acreage of string and shell beans 

 planted; gex-mination, 95. Acreage of beets, 100, compared with 

 normal; Crosby's Egyptian, early; Edmands, late; tops are badly 

 eaten; otherwise, condition is 100. Number of early set cabbage, 

 100; compared with 1912, 100; early crop was plowed up; early 

 variety, Early Summer Winnigstadt ; late variety, Danish Ball 

 Head; prospective acreage of late crop, 80. No cauliflower raised 

 here. Acreage of celery compared with normal, 100; with last year, 

 120; no indication of running to seed; acreage, late crop compared 

 with normal, 120; variety, early crop, Paris Golden: late crop, 

 Pascal. Acreage of sweet corn, compared with normal, 40; present 

 condition, 80; Bantam has been planted. Lettuce crop normal; 

 compared with 1912, 120; price, 125 compared with normal; with 

 last year, 125. Acreage of peas normal, same as 1912; prospect, 

 125; principal variety, Gradus. Acreage of spinach normal, same 

 as 1912; there has not been an average crop; prices, 80 per cent of 

 1912. Tomatoes, acreage, 100, same as 1912; varieties in use, 

 Earliana, Autocrat, Stone; present condition, 80, Cutworms doing 

 considerable damage; cabbage crop plowed up, owing to maggot; 

 maggot on beet also bad. From 8 to 11 acres in this vicinity 

 in-igated; general crops, except asparagus and rhubarb; Skinner 

 system and hose; water applied when land gets dry; sowed beets 

 two days ago and watered at once; latest date of application Octo- 

 ber 1; my land is sandy and will take a gTeat deal of water; have 

 never kept account. 



