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or slightly above. Thrips had greatly injured the crop and 

 drought had reduced the size of the onions. The quality was 

 such as to insure a well-cured product. The crop of late 

 potatoes was slightly larger than anticipated on August 25, 

 but much smaller than that of 1912. The quality was excel- 

 lent with remarkable freedom from rot. Among late market- 

 garden crops, beets, parsnips and carrots offered the best 

 prospects. Pears were the largest fruit crop harvested during 

 the month. Grass, cabbage, turnips, corn, fall feed and pota- 

 toes were most benefited by rain. Frosts occurred between 

 the 9th and 16th, inclusive, throughout the five western 

 counties. Locally, frosts occurred from the 1st to the 18th, 

 with one in Hampshire on the 23d. Those on the 14th, 15th 

 and 16th were severe and widespread, being reported from 

 every county. For the State, the greatest damage, in order 

 given, was done to corn, tomatoes, squash, beans, potatoes, 

 millet and melons. Tobacco was reported as being 79 per 

 cent of a normal crop, and prices offered were .7 per cent 

 above normal. 



The general opinion of correspondents was that prices were 

 slightly higher than in 1912. Plymouth was the only county 

 to show a decrease in prices over the previous year, and here 

 the price level was reported as only II/2 per cent off. Taking 

 the State as a whole, general agricultural prices advanced a 

 trifle less than 5 per cent. 



