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drought, but is recovering now. Rye, oats and barley are not 

 quite up to the average. 



Billerica (Geo. P. Greenwood). — We seem to be unusually 

 free from insects at the present time. Corn of all kinds is looking 

 badly ; a large part of the crop is grown for the silo. There is a 

 full hay crop and the quality is good. About the same amount as 

 usual of corn and millet is grown for forage. Market-garden 

 crops are in poor condition and bring high prices. Fruit of all 

 kinds will bis a very light crop. Pastures are in good condition. 

 Rye, oats and barley are but little grown. 



Lincoln (C. S. Wheeler). — Potato bugs are the only insects 

 doing damage. Corn is very backward ; probably none will be 

 put into the silo. Hay is about a three-fourths crop and the quality 

 is below the average. Hungarian grass, Japanese millet, corn and 

 barley are the principal forage crops grown. Market-garden crops 

 are backward ; potatoes fair ; sweet corn poor. There is a very 

 light crop of apples ; no peaches ; few pears and plums ; grapes 

 hardly fair. Pastures are in good condition where the brush has 

 been kept down. Rye, oats and barley are not raised for grain 

 and are about average for forage. 



Stoneham (J. E. Wiley). — Onion and cabbage maggots are 

 doing some damage. Indian corn is little raised. The hay crop 

 is a fair average both as to quantity and quality. Fodder corn is 

 the principal forage crop grown and is in good condition. Market- 

 garden crops are backward, but bring higher prices than usual; 

 potatoes are looking well. Apples and grapes poor ; pears fair. 

 Pastures are in good condition. Rye, oats and barley are not 

 much raised. 



Arlington (W. W. Rawson). — The hay crop is more than an 

 average one. Market-garden crops are late, but are looking finely 

 and give good promise for good crops. 



Newton (Otis Pettee). — Indian corn is looking well; about 

 the same proportion of the crop as last year will go into the silo. 

 Hay is about 75 or 80 per cent of a normal crop in quantity and is 

 of good quality. Oats, corn and some millet and Hungarian grass 

 are raised for forage. Market-garden crops promise fairly well. 

 Pasturage is in very good condition. 



ESSEX COUNTY. 

 Salisbury (Wesley Pettengill) . — Potato bugs are doing the 

 most damage of any insect, but squash bugs are quite plenty. 

 Corn is rather small and backward, but has made rapid growtli of 

 late ; none put into the silo. Hay is nearly an average crop and 

 was secured in good condition. Fodder corn, barley, millet and 



