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rapid growth since the rains, especially corn and rowen. The apiDle 

 crop will not be quite as full as that of last year. 



Haverhill (Milton A. Corliss). — Indian corn promises to be an 

 excellent crop. Rowen will be little more than a normal crop. Late 

 potatoes are looking well ; no rot or blight as yet. Fruit prospect : 

 apples, good ; pears, fair ; peaches, poor ; grapes, good ; quinces, fair ; 

 cranberries, good. Condition of pasturage is more than normal for 

 this time of year. The oats and barley crops have been better than 

 normal. Celery and other late market-garden crops are doing well. 

 There has been an increase in the production of ducks and geese 

 during the past year. A^jples promise a better crop than last year, 

 but seem to be better in some vicinities than in others. Cranberry 

 meadows are not equipped so that they can be flooded to prevent 

 injury from frost. 



Methuen (Frederick A. Russell). — Indian corn is rather back- 

 ward. Rowen is about an average crop. Late potatoes are looking 

 well; no blight or rot seen. Fruit prospect: early ajDples, good; 

 late apples, fair; ]Dears, very few; peaches, scarce. Pasturage is in 

 good condition for this time of year. Oats and barley compare 

 favorably wath former years. Celery is looking well, with a large 

 acreage set; other late market-garden crops are in good condition. 

 Very few ducks or geese raised. 



Groveland (A. S. Longfellow). — Indian corn is backward, but 

 growing fast. Rowen jDromises a good crop on early-cut fields. Late 

 l^otatoes look well ; no rot as yet. Fruit prospect : apples, a one-half 

 crop ; pears, very few ; peaches, few. Pasturage is much improved 

 by the rainy weather. Oats and barley were all cut for hay in this 

 region, and as such were nornaal crops. Late market-garden crops 

 are looking very well. Interest in the production for market of 

 ducks and geese has not increased. 



Hamilton (G. R. Dodge). — Indian corn is still a little backward, 

 but earing np rapidly. Rowen will be a 75 per cent crop on low 

 meadows, with none on upland. Late potatoes are still growing; 

 blight has ai:)peared in two or three places. Fruit prospect : apples, 

 fair; pears, short; jjeaches, almost none; grapes, good; quinces and 

 cranberries, not raised in this locality. Pasturage is very good, — 

 better at this season than for the past two or three years. Oats and 

 barley are not raised for grain. Celery is not grown commercially; 

 beets, ruta bagas and cabbage are hardly up to normal in condition, 

 but growing fine. Poultrymen seem to take no interest in raising 

 ducks, geese or turkeys. 



Danvers (Geo. D. Hooper). — No Indian corn gi-own in this 

 section. Sweet corn shows a large acreage and a good yield. It 

 looks now as though rowen would be about a nonnal crop. Late 

 potato crop seems to be growing rank; no blight or rot as yet. 



