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large a crop of as good quality has not l)een secured in as 

 good condition within recent years. 



Forage Crops. 

 The heav}'^ hay crop and the good condition of pastures 

 have both operated to reduce the acreage devoted to forage 

 crops somewhat. They are generally in good condition. 

 Fodder corn is the crop most extensively grown for forage, 

 and oats, Hungarian grass, 1)arley, millet, and peas and oats 

 follow in the order given. Other ci'ops grown for forage 

 are vetches, oats and barley, peas and barley, cow peas, 

 turnips, rye, soja beans, and oats and rye. 



Market-garden Crops. 

 Market-garden crops are generally reported as in good 

 condition and promising well. Prices average about as in 

 other years, any falling off on some crops being balanced 

 by increases on others. 



Early Potatoes. 

 Early potatoes have not been generally dug as yet, but 

 the returns seem to indicate that the crop, as a whole, will 

 be light rather than otherwise, the hot dry weather of early 

 July having operated to check their growth in most instances. 

 No complaint of blight is noted as yet. Prices generally 

 rule high, but reports have been made only on the very first 

 digging, and cannot be taken as surely indicative of later 

 results. 



Fruits. 

 Apples will be a light crop for a bearing year, not having 

 set well and having also dropped badly. Pears will also be 

 a light crop. Peaches are generally reported as most un- 

 promising. Plums promise a fair crop and quinces a good 

 crop. Grapes generally promise well though there is some 

 complaint that they are not as forward as they should be. 

 The returns do not warrant any very definite statement as to 

 cranberries, but we should judge that the crop was, on the 

 whole, hardly up to the average. 



