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able crops. Potatoes sold well but the crop was light, and beans 

 were a light crop. Considered as a whole, the season has been a 

 profitable one. 



Woburn (W. II. Bartlett). — Root crops are not good, though 

 the rains have helped the late ones. Farm stock is looking well 

 as cows were mostly fed from the barns where kept for milk, 

 which kept them in good condition. Fall seeding was put in so 

 late that its condition cannot be definitely given. Farm crops 

 have brought fair average prices. None of our leading crops were 

 profitable this year ; perhaps early sweet corn did as well as any. 

 The whole season has been very hard with us ; the long drought 

 injured early sown crops and at the same time hindered the germi- 

 nation of late ones. Grass is now looking very well and some 

 rowen might be cut. Apples are about all picked ; most of them 

 were on the outside branches, the inner branches having but few. 



Arlington (W. W. Rawson). — Root crops are not up to the 

 usual average. Prices for crops raised for market have been very 

 low. The season has not been a profitable one. The dry weather 

 has injured many crops and the rains came too late to make a full 

 crop. The market has been flooded with all kinds of truck from 

 other sections, so that taking it as a whole, it has been a poor year 

 for this locality. 



Neivton (Otis Pkttee). — Root crops are a full average, taken 

 as a whole, though late turnips are rather light. Farm stock is in 

 very fair condition. Most fall seeding is looking well. Prices for 

 farm crops compare favorably with previous years. Late potatoes, 

 corn and celery have been our most profitable crops. Pasturage 

 has been light and rowen scarce and poor. The fall rains have 

 given new vigor to vegetation generally, but too late to save some 

 of the crops. 



ESSEX COUNTY. 



Salisbury (Wesley Pettengill). — Root crops have not proved 

 to be average crops, and some of them are not over half crops. 

 Farm stock is in rather poor condition. Fall seeding is looking 

 fairly well now. Prices for farm crops have been fully up to the 

 average, except for apples. Hay has been our most profitable 

 crop and potatoes our least profitable one. The season has been 

 about an average one for profit ; our apple crop will be quite a 

 help, although the prices are low. The rains and warm weather 

 of the past month have improved pastures and mowings wonder- 

 fully. The squash crop is light compared with other years. 



Haverhill (Eben Webster). — Roots are rather light crops on 

 dry land. Farm stock is in fairly good condition. Fall seeding 



