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we generally have good trade ; then farmers finish haying and have 

 time to attend to selling their produce, which keeps the market full 

 until frost kills the vines. Pickle picking will soon begin. 



Sherborn (N. B. Douglas). — Potato bugs are doing some dam- 

 age. Indian corn is good though rather late ; little, if any, will 

 be put into the silo. Hay is a three-fourths crop of excellent 

 quality. Oats, Hungarian grass and barley are the principal 

 forage crops and all promise well. Potatoes look well but have 

 set poorly. Apples, grapes and cranberries are full crops. Past- 

 urage is above the average at this season. 



Hopkinton (W. V. Thompson). — Maggots in squashes and 

 cucumbers are doing some damage. Corn is in good condition 

 and most of the fodder will be put into the silo. Hay is about a 

 three-fourths crop. Corn and Hungarian grass are the principal 

 forage crops raised and are in good condition. Potatoes are look- 

 ing well. Apples are a heavy crop of very fine fruit. Oats are a 

 good crop. 



ESSEX COUNTY. 



Haverhill (Eben Webster) . — Corn is of good color and up to 

 the average ; not more than one-fourth of the crop will be put into 

 the silo. Hay crop of good quality but a little below the average 

 in quantity. Corn, winter rye, barley and oats are the principal 

 forage crops and are all looking well. Yield of market-garden 

 crops good ; prices a little higher than last year ; not many pota- 

 toes harvested. Apples and grapes good, but pears and peaches 

 scarce. Pasturage is in very fair condition. Rye, oats and barley 

 are not much grown for grain. 



Salisbury (Wesley Pettengill). — Potato bugs are doing some 

 damage. Corn is looking well but only a small part will be put 

 into the silo. The hay crop was about the same as last year in 

 quantity and of good quality. Corn fodder is the principal forage 

 crop raised. Market-garden crops are looking well ; potatoes on 

 high land will be light, on low land looking well. Apples promise 

 a large crop, very few pears, no peaches, grapes look well, cran- 

 berries need rain. Pastures are in fair condition, having been 

 kept up by the light rains. Rye, oats and barley compare well 

 with other years. There is an immense crop of blueberries. 



Newbury (G. W. Adams). — Potato bugs are doing some dam- 

 age. Corn is in good condition and 10 per cent will be put into 

 the silo. Hay is about a three-fourths crop of good quality. 

 Fodder corn, oats and barley are raised to supplement the hay 

 crop and are backward for want of rain. Market-garden crops 

 are in fair condition but suffered somewhat from drought. Apples 



