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noticed a little blight on late potatoes, but not much. Apple and 

 pear trees are well loaded with fruit. Pasturage is rather light, 

 though recent showers have helped it in a measure. 



ESSEX COUNTY. 



Salisbury (Wesley Pettengiee). — On high ground Indian corn 

 was injured by the drought; on medium and low ground it is look- 

 ing well. There is very little rowen worth mowing. There will 

 be a light yield of late potatoes ; have noticed no rot. Apples a 

 large crop ; pears fair; peaches fair; grapes good; cranberries 

 light. Pasturage has been uncommonly poor all summer, but has 

 improved some since the rains. Oats and barley were about three- 

 fourths crops. Some farmers keep five or six hundred hens, and 

 the average income from poultry is nearly one-half that from the 

 dairy. The farmers along the sea coast will have a large crop of 

 salt hay this year, which will be a great help in feeding stock. 



Haverhill (Eben Webster). — Corn is a fair crop, but not up 

 to the average. Rowen will give two-thirds of the usual crop. 

 Late potatoes promise better than early ones, though there is some 

 blight. There will be about a normal crop of fruit. Pastures are 

 in good coudition since the rains. Oats and barley are mostly cut 

 for fodder. 



Andover (M. H. Gould). — Ensilage corn is looking well ; that 

 for grain is light, on account of drought. Rowen is about half a 

 normal crop. Late potatoes are not an average crop, but there is 

 no blight or rot. The prospect for apples is fairly good ; pears 

 light ; peaches light ; grapes and cranberries good. Pastures are 

 all dried up. Oats and barley were half crops. Not much atten- 

 tion is paid to poultry, and our farmers get most of their income 

 from dairy products. 



Ipswich (0. C. Smith). — Indian corn is in very good condition. 

 The rowen crop will be small, and there is none on uplands. Late 

 potatoes are a very good crop, but smaller than usual ; some blight 

 and rot. All fruits promise well except peaches. Pasturage has 

 about dried up, but is now improving. Oats and barley are aver- 

 age crops, being cut for fodder mainly. Most farmers have some 

 poultry, but only those who make a business of it get income to 

 compare with that from the dairy. 



Wenham (N. P. Perkins). — Not much corn is planted in this 

 vicinity, but that on moist land is looking well. What rowen 

 there is will be quite late. Late potatoes are a light crop, though 

 rather better than early. Apples are rather small, but a good 

 crop ; small crop of pears ; some peaches ; but few grapes and 

 cranberries. Pastures are very poor and dry, and cows are fed 



