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Groton (Daniel Neediiam) . — Hay crop largely secured, and 

 is of first- rate quality and at least nine-tenths of an average. 

 Outlook for roweu is poor. Prospect fair for fall apples ; poor for 

 winter. Good yield of small fruits, with average prices. Early 

 potatoes about the average in yield ; price $1.40 per bushel. Mod- 

 erate rains have kept the surface of the earth fairly moistened, so 

 that the pastures and hills never looked better ; but the springs are 

 low. All garden as well as field products look exceptionally well. 



ESSEX COUNTY. 



Haverhill (Ebenezer Webster) . — We have had excellent 

 weather to make hay, and the crop has been secured in good 

 order. Some have more than last year and some have less. On 

 the whole, the crop is about an average and is of good qualit3^ 

 Outlook for rowen not very good at present. Prospect good for 

 fall apples ; poor for winter. Good yield of raspberries and 

 blackberries ; strawberries fair ; prices about the same as last 

 year. Fair crop of early potatoes ; no rot. The price started at 

 $1.50 per bushel but has fallen now to 50 cents. 



Grooeland (Abel Stickney). — Quantity of hay a little less 

 than average ; quality better. Outlook poor for rowen. To-day 

 (2Dtli) it is raining and perhaps rowen will look better, as rain is 

 needed very much. Small crop of apples. Small fruits are yield- 

 ing well, and prices compare well with the past. Early potatoes 

 are yielding well ; average price about $1.00 per bushel. Nearly 

 all grain is cut for hay. 



Rowley (T. P. Hale). — We have just finished haying, with 

 quantity about two-thirds of an average and quality fine. The 

 outlook for rowen is good. Prospect of one-half a crop of apples. 

 Early potatoes good yield and fair price, now about $1 per bushel. 

 Rye is good. Corn is a little backward, and August must be 

 exceptionally favorable to complete the crop. 



Ipswich (O. C. Smith). — Hay is secured, except on the wet 

 meadows. The crop averages about seventy per cent ; quality 

 good. Early cut fields, with sufficient rain, promise an average 

 yield of roweu. Fall apples promise well ; winter apples small 

 crop. Russets and Greenings will be a full average, but there are 

 only now and then Baldwin trees with any fruit upon them. Cul- 

 tivated small fruits are average crops and wild fruits large crops. 

 Fair prices for both have been realized. Yield of early potatoes 

 about an average. Prices started at $1.25. Farmers have rushed 

 them to market, and they have dropped to 75 cents per bushel ; and 

 slow sales at that. More oats and barley are raised to cut in 



