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Potatoes are less than half a crop, except on moist land. Roots 

 are growing well ; celery not grown for market here. Most of the 

 apples were blown off in the gale ; nothing or next to nothing has 

 been done with the windfalls. Cranberries are not raised ; the 

 other small fruits have turned out well. 



ESSEX COUNTY. 



West Newbury (J. C. Tarleton). — Indian corn is an average 

 crop and a large amount of it used for the silo. Rowen and fall 

 feed are not up to the usual average. Very little fall seeding has 

 been done, but that which is in looks fairly well. Potatoes are 

 few and small. Root crops, celery and other late market-garden 

 crops are up to the normal. Apples were abundant, but the wind 

 blew over half of them from the trees ; some are ground and fed 

 out, others are used for cider. There was a great quantity of 

 small fruits of extra fine quality. 



Ipswich (0. C. Smith). — Corn has about an average stalk for 

 fodder and grain is about 80 per cent of a normal crop. Very 

 little rowen has been cut ; pastures are improving. Not as much 

 fall seeding as usual has been done, the drought has kept plowing 

 back so that some are seeding this week, none up. Onions are a 

 fair crop though little raised. Potatoes run small and give a light 

 yield, but are of good quality. The prospect for root crops, 

 celery and other late market-garden crops is good, as the late rains 

 have benefited them all and they are still growing. The apple 

 crop was very large ; almost all the fall fruit and about one-third 

 the winter fruit was blown off in the gale of the 12th ; winter fruit 

 left on the ground to ripen for cider. Other fruits were full aver- 

 age crops except grapes and plums. 



Topsfiekl (B. P. Pike). — Indian corn is only a light crop this 

 year. There was no rowen and there is not much fall feed. Hardly 

 any fall seeding has been done and it is in poor shape at present. 

 Onions are a light crop. Early potatoes were a light crop, late 

 ones fair. Root crops, celery and other late market-garden crops 

 are below the average. The gale blew off one-third of a very 

 heavy crop of apples ; some of the windfalls were made into cider, 

 others are still on the ground. Pears were a fair crop ; peaches 

 good ; plums good ; no cranberries grown. 



Manchester (John Baker). — Corn has done well. Rowen and 

 fall feed are poor. The usual amount of fall seeding has been 

 done and is in good condition. Onions are a good crop. Potatoes 

 are a fair crop, of good quality. Apples are a good crop in spite 

 of the gale, which shook off a great many; windfalls are largely 



