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number of bushels secured to something below the normal. 

 Size and <j[ualitY are generally reported to be good, and 

 where growers have escaped rot the crop leaves nothing to 

 complain of. Prices, so far as reported, are not high, 50 

 cents per bushel being the price generally secured. 



Root Crops, Celery, etc. 



Root crops generally promised well at time of making re- 

 turns, though there were some reports of injury from frost. 

 Celery is also a good crop, though somewhat late and small 

 in some sections. Other late market-garden crops promise 

 well and should give good yields. Squashes, cucumbers, 

 tomatoes, sweet corn and beans, where not secured before 

 the frosts, were genei-ally ruined, but the actual money loss 

 will be small, most of these crops raised for market being- 

 reported as gathered. Inconvenience will result, neverthe- 

 less, from the loss of these vegetables Avhere grown for 

 family use. 



Fruits. 



There were some reports of apples being frozen on the 

 trees on the mornings of the 2 2d and 23d, but these were 

 not numerous enough to materially affect the yield. In 

 western counties an extraordinarily heavy crop is generally 

 reported, but in central and eastern sections the crop will 

 be somewhat light as a rule. For the State as a whole the 

 yield should be about normal, the number of trees being 

 proportionately greater in the regions reporting a heavy 

 yield. Pears are not more than a fair crop, taken as a 

 whole. Peaches yielded well in some sections, but not at all 

 or very lightly in most, the total result being a light crop 

 even for Massachusetts. Grapes generally yielded well, 

 but a large proportion of the later varieties was destroyed 

 by frost, and there were also some complaints of rot. Cran- 

 berries were but a light crop when harxesting began, and 

 in many sections a considerable proportion of the crop 

 matured was destroyed by frost, with the total result of 

 one of the lightest crops of recent years. 



