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for root crops, celery and other late market-garden crops is good. 

 Winter apples are not yet picked but the crop is good. Pears are 

 a small crop, no peaches, grapes and cranberries fair. 



Southborough (E F. Collins) . — Indian corn is about an average 

 crop. Rowen is a better crop than for several years. The usual 

 amount of fall seeding has been done, and though backward it is 

 now doing well. Potatoes are a large yield of good quality. 

 Turnips are a good crop. Apple trees were so loaded that the 

 fruit is small though fair. Army worms have done a great deal of 

 damage to late Hungarian grass and have also overrun consider- 

 able grass land. 



Upton (B. A. Jourdan). — Indian corn is a good crop and the 

 ears are well filled out. Rowen and fall feed are above the usual 

 average. The usual amount of fall seeding has been done and is 

 looking finely. Onions are a good crop though little raised. Po- 

 tatoes are an average crop in yield and quality. Root crops, 

 celery and other late market-garden crops promise well. Apples 

 are a heavy crop, pears and peaches very light, grapes and cran- 

 berries good. 



Douglas (Wm. Abbott). — Corn is more than an average crop. 

 Rowen and fall feed are up to the usual average. About the usual 

 amount of fall seeding has been done but the condition is not as 

 good as usual. Ouions are fully an average crop. Potatoes are 

 an average crop in yield but the quality is poor in most cases. 

 Root crops are good and celery looks well though it is rather late. 

 Apples are the largest crop on record though they have dropped 

 badly. Pears and peaches are of no account but cranberries are 

 fair. There has been plenty of rain during the past month. Har- 

 vesting is nearly completed with the exception of apple pickmg. 



MIDDLESEX COUNTY. 



Dunstable (A. J. Gilson). — Indian corn is fully an average 

 crop. Rowen and fall feed are fully up to the average. A good 

 amount of fall seeding has been done and it is looking finely. 

 Onions are below an average crop though few are raised for mar- 

 ket. Potatoes are rather below the average in quantity ; quality 

 very good though the white grub has eaten them badly. Turnips 

 are looking well. Apples are abundant, no pears or peaches, 

 grapes and cranberries rather above the average. 



Westford (Arthur Wright). — Indian corn is better than last 

 year. Rowen and fall feed are up to the usual average. The 

 average amount of fall seeding has been done and is in good con- 

 dition. Onions are a good average crop. Root crops, celery and 



