growth of stover, and earing and ripening nicely. Some 

 correspondents report that it is still backward, and will 

 need a long season to mature the crop ; but these reports 

 are the exception, and probably are due to local conditions. 

 Ensilage corn has made a fine growth of stover, and silos 

 should be well filled with a fine quality of ensilage, unless 

 there is a remarkably early killing frost. 



Sweet Corn. 

 In Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire, Hampden and west- 

 ern Worcester counties very little sweet corn is grown ex- 

 cept for home use, the only exceptions being a section in 

 northern Franklin County, where it is grown for a local 

 cannery, and a few towns near the cities of Springfield and 

 Northam})ton. In eastern Worcester County and in the 

 eastern counties of the State, including the Cape and the 

 islands, sweet corn is reported as being extensively grown 

 for the market. It is generally reported to be an excellent 

 crop, particularly the later varieties, yielding well, and of 

 fine quality. It is also extensively grown in all sections as 

 a late forage crop. 



ROWEN. 



The greater portion of the reports would indicate that 

 rowen will be an unusually heavy crop. This will un- 

 doubtedly be the case on all fields that were cut early ; but 

 there was such a large proportion of the first crop that was 

 not secured until Avell into August that the acreage cut over 

 for rowen will necessarily be considerably decreased. It is 

 to be feared that the correspondents underrate the eficct of 

 this on the bulk of the crop, and that their predictions as to 

 the bulk of the total crop must be discounted until later 

 advices. 



Late Potatoes. 



Late potatoes generally promised well, with a good 

 growth of vine and setting of tubers ; but have now been 

 generally struck with blight in all sections, and rot has 

 appeared in many localities. The usual history of these 

 fungous diseases is that they are worse in their eflects than 

 was at first anticipated, rather than otherwise; and it is to 



