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about 80 per cent of last year's yield in quantity, but of much 

 better quality. Corn is the principal forage crop grown. Pota- 

 toes are very plenty and very good ; yield and prices of market- 

 garden crops good. Some orchards of apples are looking well ; 

 pears not up to the standard ; no peaches ; plums plenty ; other 

 fruits average. Pastures are in very good condition. Rye, oats 

 and barley are looking well. 



Winchester (S. S. Symmes) . — Gypsy moths are the most trouble- 

 some of any insect. Indian corn is not raised here. The hay crop 

 is 80 per cent of the normal, both in quantity and quality ; gypsy 

 moth caterpillars have eaten several acres of hay. Fodder corn 

 is the principal forage crops grown, and is beginning to suffer 

 from drought. Prices have been low for market-garden crops 

 except for cucumbers. Gypsy moths have defoliated all the apple 

 trees ; peaches fair ; plums scarce. Pastures are badly dried up. 

 Rye is in good condition ; no barley or oats grown. 



Arlington (W. W. Rawson). — Gypsy and brown-tail moths are 

 doing the most damage of any insects. The hay crop was a good 

 one, both in quantity and quality. Market-garden crops are all 

 looking finely, and celery is starting well. There will be a light 

 fruit crop. 



Newton (G. L. Makcy). — No insects are more than usually 

 troublesome. Corn is not much grown except for the silo. Hay 

 was a two-thirds crop of good quality. Oats, barley, millet and 

 corn are the principal forage crops, and are in good condition, 

 except that they are somewhat lodged by wind and rain. Market- 

 garden crops are doing well ; no potatoes dug as yet. Pears and 

 plums promise well. Pasturage is in good condition since the late 

 rains. Rye, oats and barley are about average crops. 



ESSEX COUNTY. 



Amesbury (F. W. Sargent). — Potato beetles are the only in- 

 sect doing appreciable damage. Corn is in nearly average condi- 

 tion ; half the crop is grown for ensilage. The hay crop is of 

 extra quality and a full crop, though possibly 10 per cent below 

 that of 1904. Corn, oats and barley are the principal forage crops, 

 with an occasional piece of millet. It is rather dry for potatoes, 

 but generally vegetables are growing well. All fruits, with the 

 exception of Baldwin apples, are likely to be plenty. Pastures 

 are in fair condition, but more rain is needed. 



Haverhill (Eben Webster) . — Rose bugs are doing some damage. 

 Corn is looking fairly well on moist land, but is suffering from 

 drought on dry land. Oats and peas, Hungarian grass, corn and 



