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BARNSTABLE COUNTY. 



West Falmouth (D. R. Wicks). — Corn is fully up io a normal 

 in stalk, and eared out well, but is late, and the cool nights do not 

 allow the filling of the kernels. The rains have made the rowen crop 

 fully up to the average, and fall feed is in good condition. The 

 usual amount of fall seeding has been done, and the fields are in 

 good shape. Not many onions are grown here now; in former 

 years thousands of bushels were produced. The yield of late 

 potatoes is about 75 per cent of a normal; the quality is very good. 

 Root crops and other late garden crops are in good condition. Fruit, 

 yield : apples, 60 per cent ; pears, 75 per cent ; peaches, 40 per 

 cent; grapes, 100 per cent; cranberries, 50 per cent. Fruit, quality: 

 apples, 20 per cent (not sprayed); pears, a failure; peaches and 

 grapes, 100 per cent; cranberries, 50 per cent. No damaging frosts 

 as yet. 



Mashpee (W. F. Hammond). — The crop of Indian corn is above 

 the average. Rowen is about an average croj). Fall feed is above 

 the average. The usual amount of fall seeding has been done, 

 and the crops are looking well. The onion crop is an average one. 

 The potato crop is below the average, both in yield and in quality. 

 Fruit, yield: apples, pears, grapes and cranberries, a one-half 

 crop; peaches, a three-fourths crop. Fruit, quality: apples, below 

 the average; pears, about the average; grapes, not very good; cran- 

 berries, in good condition. There has not been any frost. There 

 has been a general improvement in the care of orchards. 



West Barnstable (John Burslet). — Indian corn is very late 

 and only three-fourths of a normal crop. Rowen is hardly up to 

 the usual average. The condition of fall feed is fair. Although 

 sown late, to the usual amount, most fall seeding is starting. Early 

 planted potatoes show a yield of 90 per cent of a normal; the 

 quality is good. Cape turnips are looking well. Fruit, yield : 

 apples, 85 per cent of normal; pears, 90 per cent; peaches, 50 per 

 cent; grapes, 100 per cent; cranberries, 75 per cent. Fruit, quality: 

 apples, where sprayed, look well; cranberries, 100 per cent. No 

 damage from frosts up to evening of September 22. A few orchards 

 are cared for, and these produce better fruit. Spring frosts, flowing 

 and insects seem to have all made inroads, causing light crops in 

 many instances. Fully three-fourths of the cranberries are secured, 

 free from frosts. 



Dennis (Joshua Crowell). — Corn compares favorably with a 

 normal crop. Fall feed and rowen are up to the usual average. 

 Fall seeding is in good condition. The onion crop is about an 

 average. Potatoes are perhaps a little below normal in yield, with 

 a crop of good quality. Root crops are average. Fruit, yield : 



