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ESSEX COUNTY. 



Groveland (A. S. Longfellow). — Corn is a very good crop. Rowen 

 and fall feed are less than average crops. There has not. been much 

 fall seeding done this year, but it is in good condition. Onions are an 

 average crop. Potatoes are a much better yield than was expected, 

 and are of good quality. The prospect for root crops, celery and other 

 late market-garden crops is very good. There is a small crop of apples; 

 pears, peaches and grapes good. There is no damage from frost as 

 yet in this section. 



North Andover (Peter Holt). — Indian corn is about a normal 

 crop, but late. There is very little rowen, and fall feed has suffered 

 from the dry weather. Not much fall seeding has been done, and that 

 put in has not started well. There are some extra good crops of pota- 

 toes, and some total failures; perhaps a fair average, as a whole. All 

 late crops have suffered from the drought. Apples are very light; 

 pears fair; peaches good; grapes good, but late; cranberries injured 

 by early frost. There has been a little damage from frosts. 



Rowley (D. H. O'Brien). — Corn is a normal crop. Rowen and 

 fall feed are 50 per cent of an average. The usual amount of fall seed- 

 ing has been done, but it is backward in germinating. Onions are less 

 than a normal crop. Potatoes are normal in yield, and above average 

 in quality. Apples, 25 per cent of normal crop; pears and peaches, 

 50; grapes an extra crop; cranberries medium, having been badly 

 damaged by frost. There was damage by frost on September 9 and 

 20. 



Topsfield (B. P. Pike). — Indian corn is three-fourths of a normal 

 crop. Rowen and fall feed are not up to the usual average, not more 

 than 25 per cent. About the usual amount of fall seeding has been 

 done, but it is late. Potatoes are an average crop in yield and quality. 

 The prospect is fair for root crops, celery and other late market- 

 garden crops. Apples are 15 per cent of a full crop; pears, 50; peaches 

 average; cranberries frosted; grapes average. 



Hamilton (Geo. R. Dodge). — Indian corn is short of a normal 

 crop at least one-third. The rowen crop is practically nothing, and 

 fall feed is but little better. But very little fall seeding has been done, 

 and it is yet too early to predict the result. Potatoes will average a 

 two-thirds crop; quality, first rate. Root crops and late cabbage are 

 below average. Apples and cranberries are very scarce; pears, peaches 

 and grapes plentiful. A killing frost occurred September 19 and 20, 

 damaging all vines, Lima beans and tomatoes. 



Wenham (N. P. Perkins). — Not much corn in this vicinity; what 

 there is is very poor, and on some fields but few ears are ripening. 

 There was no rowen to speak of, and but little feed in pastures. There 

 was about the usual amount of fall seeding, but it starts slowly and is 

 small. The majority of onion fields are below average in yield. Pota- 



