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ing. Early potatoes are rather below an average crop ; late ones 

 doing finely. Pasturage is in very good condition. There is but 

 little rye grown this season, but what there is has done well. 



ESSEX COUNTY. 



Salisbury (Wesley Pettengill). — Potato bugs are doing the 

 most damage at the present time. Corn is looking well as the hot 

 weather has pushed it along rapidly, but very little will be put into 

 the silo. The hay crop was good, larger than last year, but not 

 a great crop. Fodder corn, millet and barley are the principal 

 forage crops grown, and are looking finely, with an increased 

 acreage. Market-garden crops are in good condition ; potatoes 

 looking fairly well ; prices above the average. Apples are a light 

 crop ; pears good ; peaches rather light ; plums and grapes good. 

 Pastures are in good condition. Rye, oats and barley are rather 

 less than average crops. Beans are looking finely, but squash 

 vines are dying badly. 



Haverhill (Eben Webster). — Potato bugs, squash bugs and 

 canker worms are doing some damage. Indian corn is in good 

 condition, and about two-thirds of the crop will go into the silo. 

 The hay crop is about the same as two years ago as to quantity 

 and of good quality. Potatoes look well. Market-garden crops 

 about as usual. Apples light crop ; pears plenty ; plums short. 

 Pasturage is in very fair condition. Rye, oats and barley are good 

 crops for forage. 



Newbury {G. W. Adams). — Potato bugs are doing some dam- 

 age. Indian corn promises a fair crop, one-third of which will go 

 into the silo. Hay was three-fourths of a full crop of fair quality. 

 Fodder corn and oats are the principal forage crops grown, and 

 are about average in condition. Market-garden crops, including 

 potatoes, are late, and recently badly pinched by drought. Apples 

 poor ; pears fair ; no peaches ; plums poor ; quinces very few ; 

 grapes fair; cranberries small crop. Pasturage is dried up. Rye, 

 oats and barley are nearly average crops. 



North Andover (Peter Holt). — Corn is small for the time of 

 year, but is growing very fast now ; nearly all that raised goes into 

 the silo. The hay crop was larger than for the past two years, but 

 much of it is being injured by bad weather. Indian corn is the 

 main fodder crop. No potatoes harvested as yet. § No winter 

 apples, a few early apples of poor quality ; no peaches or plums ; 

 grapes look well. Pasturage has been extra good. The late, wet 

 spring brings hoeing and haying together. 



Ipswich (0. C. Smith). — Potato bugs are the most in evidence 



