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Newton (Otis Pettee) . — Since the heavy rains pasturage has 

 much improved, and the prospect is for a good crop of rowen. 

 Early apples and pears made fair yields, but the recent gales have 

 blown off much late fruit. Corn has a fine start, but it has been 

 greatly injured by the gales and beating rains of late. 



ESSEX COUNTY. 



Haverhill (Eben Webster). — Grasshoppers and fall web 

 worms are doing the most damage. Pasturage is good, and the 

 prospect for rowen is good. Early fruits were a ver} 7 fair } T ield, 

 late apples are scarce, but pears are a good crop. Potatoes are 

 not quite up to an average crop. Market-garden crops have been 

 very fair, and are looking well now. Corn is about an average 

 crop. 



West Newbury (J. C. Tarleton). — Potato beetles are doing the 

 most damage. Pasturage and rowen are in very good condition. 

 Apples are a very small crop, but pears are good. Potatoes are 

 a good crop, but there is a little complaint of rot. Market-garden 

 crops are very good. Corn is a little late, but is growing fast. 



Rowley (T. P. Hale). — Grubs are eating potatoes badly. 

 Pasturage and rowen are in good condition. Early fruits were 

 not half a crop, and late ones will be light. Potatoes are a fair 

 crop, though attacked by blight. Market-garden crops have made 

 a fair yield, with good prices. Corn will be a good crop if Sep- 

 tember is a dry month. Salt hay is being damaged by the rains 

 now prevalent. 



Ipswich (O. C. Smith). — The fall web worm is doing the most 

 damage. Pasturage is good now, and rowen will be sixty per cent 

 of an average crop. Cultivated fruits have been fair crops, apples 

 will be a light crop and pears a large one. Late potatoes will be 

 a three-fourths crop of good quality. Market-garden crops have 

 had full average yields, and fall crops promise well. Corn promises 

 very nearly a full crop, and the quality will be excellent if there 

 are no early frosts. Barley and oats were about ten per cent 

 better crops than last year. The cranberry crop will be about an 

 average. 



Jtarblehead (Wji. S. Phillips). — Pasturage has improved 

 twenty-five per cent, but rowen does not look very well. Some 

 fields of late potatoes are looking excellently. Market-garden 

 crops have been fully up to the average, and those now in the 

 ground promise fully as well. Barley aud oats were about average 

 crops. The recent storms have somewhat injured the ensilage 

 fields, and shaken off about all apples aud other fruits. 



