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in fair average condition. Apples and peaches promise good crops; 

 pears fair and grapes fine; gooseberries good. Pastures were dry, 

 but have improved with the recent rains. Very few bees are kept 

 here. 



Newton (G. L. Marcy). — Indian corn is not raised. The hay crop 

 was average in quantity and of good quality. Millet and corn are the 

 principal forage crops grown. Pasturage is in poor condition. Rye, 

 oats and barley are good crops. Very few bees are kept here. The 

 rainfall has been light and the hot weather has kept vegetation back. 



ESSEX COUNTY. 



Salisbury (Wesley Pettengill). — Gypsy moth caterpillars are 

 doing the most damage of any insect. Corn is looking finely; only a 

 small part goes into the silo. Quantity of the hay crop thre< j -fourths 

 of the average; quality good. Fodder corn and Hungarian grass are 

 the principal forage crops and are in fair condition. Apples will be 

 light; pears light; peaches fair; plums light. Pasturage is fair for 

 the time of year, but on high ground is pretty well dried up. Rye, 

 oats and barley are little raised for grain. Very few bees are kept. 

 Squashes are looking finely. 



Amesbury (F. W. Sargent). — Insects are very scarce just now. 

 Indian corn is up to the average and growing rapidly now. Hay is 25 

 per cent short in yield on account of drought. Corn is the main forage 

 crop, with some oats and Hungarian. Potatoes are suffering for rain, 

 as are also onions. Winter apples are very light ; fall apples dropping 

 badly; fair amount of other fruits. Pasturage is in poor condition. 

 Rye is in excellent condition, oats and barley fair. Bees are not much 

 kept, now and then a hive or two. We have had two showers, with 

 perhaps an inch of rain, since last report, but more rain is much needed ; 

 raspberries and blackberries suffering. 



Groveland (A. S. Longfellow). — Gypsy moth caterpillars are doing 

 some damage. Indian corn is in good condition and one-half the crop 

 will go into the silo. There is a three-fourths crop of hay of excellent 

 quality. Corn is the principal forage crop grown and it is 'in good 

 condition. The condition of potatoes is only fair because of drought. 

 The prospects are for a light crop of fruit of all kinds. Pastures are 

 very dry. Rye, oats and barley are average crops. 



Andover (Milo H. Gould). — Gypsy moths, tent caterpillars and 

 elm-leaf beetles are doing damage. Indian corn is rather late; 80 per 

 cent of the crop goes into the silo. The. quantity of the hay crop was 

 below average, but the quality was good. Oats, peas, fodder corn and 

 barley are raised as forage crops and are up to the average in condition. 

 Potatoes are not yet harvested; yield and price of market-garden 

 crops about average. No apples or pears; peaches good; grapes and 

 cranberries good. Pasturage is rather dry and short. Rye, oats and 

 barley are up to the average. Bees are not kept here. 



