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ESSEX COUNTY. 



Dcmvers (C. H. Pueston). — Season compares fairly well with 

 the same date last year. Indian corn looks well ; acreage about 

 the same as last year. Haying has commenced and there will be 

 a small crop. Early potatoes are looking well. Milk same price 

 as last year. Small fruits promise well. The principal .ones 

 grown here are strawberries, blackberries and currants. The rain 

 was a great help to the strawberry crop, which otherwise would 

 have been a partial failure. 



Groveland (Abel Stickney). — Season not quite as early as 

 last. Corn is looking finely ; should think acreage one-fifth more. 

 Haying has commenced, but on account of bad weather slow prog- 

 ress has been made. Prospect for crop better than a month ago. 

 Early potatoes are looking uncommonly well ; acreage not much 

 greater than last year. Outlook for small fruits is good. Pasture 

 huckleberries and blueberries more than usual. 



North Andover (Peter Holt, Jr.). — Grass and most crops 

 are from a week to ten days late. Corn looks small and back- 

 ward ; acreage about the same as last year. Haying has com- 

 menced. The hay crop is not as good as last year, although the late 

 rains have very much improved it. The acreage of early potatoes 

 is fully as great as last year, but in many cases they did not come 

 up well. The outlook for small fruits is favorable ; the cultivation 

 increases every year; principal ones are strawberries, blackberries, 

 raspberries and currants. On almost any farm small fruits are 

 grown to a greater or less extent for home use if not for market. 



Toj^s^field (B. P. Pike). — Season not as forward as last year. 

 Corn is looking well ; increased acreage. Haying has not com- 

 menced to any extent ; crop not more than three-fourths of an 

 average one. Early potatoes did not come up well ; acreage 

 increased. No dairy products but milk ; less quantity ; same 

 price. Small fruits are looking well, though not many are grown 

 for market. Apples did not set well, and what did set are falling 

 off badly, and the same is true of pears. 



West Newbury (J. C. Tarleton). — Season a little later than 

 last year at this time. The acreage of Indian corn is much larger 

 than last year. Haying has not commenced, and I do not think 

 there will be more than two-thirds of a crop. The acreage of 

 early potatoes is larger than last j^ear, and just now the crop is 

 looking well. Prices of dairy products are a little better than last 

 year, but the quantity not so large. The strawberry crop is the 

 principal small fruit crop grown in this vicinity, and this year they 

 ripen very slowly, and I do not think there will be as large a crop 

 as in years past, for many beds were killed out by the cold weather. 



