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Potatoes. 



Potatoes are generally reported to be below an average 

 crop, and this condition extends about uniformly over the 

 State, with the exception of Barnstable County, where more 

 ' than an average crop is reported. In other sections the 

 reporting of an average yield is rare, and many speak of 

 them as only a one-half or three-fourths crop. On the other 

 hand, the quality is generally reported good, though a 

 number call it only fair or average. Only five complaints 

 of rot have been received. 



Boot Crops. 



Root crops generally promise well, reports of poor crops 

 being exceptional. Most correspondents speak of the pros- 

 pect as either good or excellent, and the greater portion of 

 the remainder consider it as fair. 



Apples and Cranberries. 



The apple crop is very light 'in all sections, and in many 

 localities is a total failure. The drop of the early part of 

 the season reduced the crop materially, and much of the 

 little fruit remaining was blown from the trees by the severe 

 gales of the latter pait of August. Fall apples are reported 

 as somewhat more plentiful than winter fruit, but even they 

 do not approach nearly to the usual average. 



In the section of commercial production, viz., the south- 

 eastern portion of the State, cranberries are fully an average 

 crop and probably a little above average. The correspond- 

 ent for Barnstable refers to the crop as the largest ever 

 harvested. In other sections they are on the whole rather 

 below the average, but this will probably not affect the 

 general supply to any great extent. 



