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pounds per acre. Potatoes are about half a crop. Root crops 

 promise well. Apples and cranberries are a small yield. The 

 season has been remarkable for persistent dryness and low tem- 

 perature. 



Billerica (J. N. Pardee). — Corn is considerably below an aver- 

 age crop. On many fields rowen is not worth cutting, but fall feed 

 is reasonably good. The average amount of fall seeding has been 

 done, and its present condition is favorable. Fertilizers other 

 than stable manure are not used in fall seeding. Potatoes are of 

 excellent quality, but much below the average in quantity. There 

 are a few fall apples, but winter apples are a general failure. Corn 

 and cabbage were badly damaged by the severe winds loosening 

 the roots. 



Winchester (Marshall Symmes) . — Rowen and fall feed are up 

 to the usual average. Potatoes are an average crop in yield and 

 quality. The prospect for root crops is good. Apples are scarce, 

 a great many having been blown off by the high winds. Cauli- 

 flowers are very late, and the bulk of the crop will not come till 

 the last weeks in October. 



ESSEX COUNTY. 



Haverhill (Eben Webster). — Corn is not quite up to an aver- 

 age crop. Rowen and fall feed are not quite up to the average. 

 About the usual amount of fall seeding has been done, and it is 

 looking well. Stable manure is about all that is used in fall seed- 

 ing. Onions are not quite an average crop, they seem to stop 

 growing and the tops dry too soon. Potatoes are irregular in 

 yield and quality, some fields being good and some poor. Root 

 crops promise well. There are no apples except early ones. 



West Newbury (John C. Tarleton) . — Corn is about an average 

 crop. Rowen is a very good crop. About the usual amount of 

 fall seeding has been done, and it is looking well. Fertilizers 

 other than stable manure are not used to any amount in fall seed- 

 ing. Some fields of onions are very good, while others are full of 

 thick necks. Potatoes are an average crop, and there is little 

 complaint of rot. The prospect for root crops is good. There 

 are no apples of any account. 



Ipswich (0. C. Smith). — Corn is almost an average crop. 

 Rowen is little more than half a crop, but fall feed is now up to 

 the average in condition. The average amount of fall seeding has 

 been done, and the condition will average eighty per cent, though 

 some fields have been ruined by grasshoppers. Bone dust and 

 ashes are mostly used in fall seeding. The onion crop is about 



