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too low for profit. Few early potatoes had bieen dug, but 

 the crop promised well. Returns did not indicate that the 

 apple crop would be up to the average of a bearing year. 

 Pears promised but a light crop ; plums a heavy crop ; peaches 

 much below the normal ; grapes promised well ; cranberries 

 mucli below average, owing to late frosts and hail. Pastures 

 were reported as short and dry in some sections, but the 

 rains of the closing days of the montli corrected this con- 

 dition. Rye, oats and barley were reported to be unusually 

 good crops. 



Indian corn continued somewhat baclvward during August, 

 but was earing well and promised a good crop unless killing 

 frosts came at an unusually early date. Rowen promised 

 more than an average crop and would have been even better 

 save that the first crop was cut too late on many fields. 

 Potatoes were somewhat backward, but the vines were very 

 heavy and a good crop promised, though blight was general 

 in eastern sections, with some complaints of rot. The 

 acreage of tobacco was little changed and one of the finest 

 crops ever secured was in prospect. Pastures have seldom 

 been in better condition. Apples promised a good crop; 

 pears light ; plums generally yielded well ; peaches almost 

 a failure ; grapes fair to good ; and cranberries light, owing 

 to frosts, hail and insect damage. Oats gave a very good 

 crop, with barley unusually good as a forage crop and little 

 raised for grain. 



Uncut corn was severely damaged by frosts on September 

 22d and 23d, but where well matured and cut in advance of 

 the frost it was generally well eared and of excellent quality. 

 More than an average crop of rowen was secured, and fall 

 feed was in excellent condition in most sections. Loss fall 

 seeding than usual was done, but where put in early a good 

 catch was reported. Onions were considerably below a nor- 

 mal crop, though perhaps better than previously expected. 

 Potatoes would have been an unusually heavy crop but for 

 rot, but will be somewhat below the normal in yield. Root 

 crops generally promised well, though there were some com- 

 plaints of injury from frost. Celery and other late market- 

 garden crops promised well. In the western counties an 



