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tatoes will yield well, but some rot has appeared. The prospect is 

 good for apples, peaches and grapes. Feed is very good in pastures 

 where the brush have been kept down. Oats and barley haVe been 

 good crops. 



Wakefield (Charles Talbot). — Indian corn is the finest crop for 

 years. The yield of sweet corn is great with a great demand. The 

 yield of rowen will be 20 per cent better than last year. The prospect 

 for late potatoes is good, with no blight or rot to speak of. Pears 

 plenty; few apples; no peaches; grapes and cranberries in abun- 

 dance. Pasturage is in good condition. Oats and barley are about 

 normal crops. All garden crops are of the finest with extra good 

 growth. 



Winchester (S. S. Symmes). — Indian corn is not raised. Sweet 

 corn is raised for market, and is a fine crop. Rowen promises to be a 

 good crop, and is being cut already. A little rot has just started on 

 late potatoes. There are few apples, but pears and peaches are good 

 crops. Pastures are in fine condition. The quahty of the tomato crop 

 is not as good as usual, some vines having blighted. 



Arlington (W. W. Rawsox). — The weather is very hot and dry, 

 and celerj^ has begun to blight. All other market-garden crops are 

 looking well, and the crops have all been better than on average years. 



Newton (G. L. Marcy). — Indian corn is in good condition. Sweet 

 corn is in good condition, with an average yield. Rowen will be better 

 than an average crop. Late potatoes are not much grown. The pros- 

 pect is good for all kinds of fruits. Pasturage is in good condition. 

 Oats and barley have grown well, but wet weather at maturity greatly 

 injured crops. 



ESSEX COUNTY. 



Amesbury (F. W. Sargent). — The acreage of Indian corn is small, 

 but it is making rapid growth, though it will need a long season to 

 mature. Sweet corn is raised for market, and is yielding well. 

 Rowen never promised better where grass was cut early, but much of 

 the first crop was cut late. The yield of potatoes is apparently good, 

 with no bhght as yet. Apples are a fight crop; pears plenty; grapes 

 few. Pastures are in excellent condition. Late oats are rusting; 

 oats and barley otherwise good, but little raised for grain. Market 

 gardeners complain of nearly complete loss of cucumbers by blight, 

 and tomatoes are ripening badly. 



Haverhill (Eben Webster). — Indian corn is in good condition. 

 Sweet corn is raised for market, and most of the early varieties are 

 past, with later ones looking well. Rowen will be about a normal crop. 

 There is some blight and rot on late potatoes, but not on early ones. 

 Early apples plenty, late varieties about a two-thirds crop. Pasturage 

 is in good condition. Oats and barley are about normal crops. The 

 ground is very dry now, there having been no rain for about two 

 weeks. 



