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potato crop is a poor one. The prospect is poor for root crops, celery 

 and other late market-garden crops. Apples, pears, peaches, grapes 

 and cranberries are below the average. 



ESSEX COUNTY. 



Salisbury (Wesley Pettengill). — Indian corn is a good normal 

 crop, rather better than the average. On good land, where the first 

 crop was cut early, rowen was unusually good. There has been con- 

 siderable fall seeding done, but it looks poorly, owing to dry weather. 

 The quality of the potato crops is good, but the yield is light. The 

 prospect for late crops is rather poor, on account of the drought. 

 Apples are a light crop ; pears good; peaches fair; grapes good; cran- 

 berries rather light. Squashes are an uncommonly good crop this 

 year, but the late cabbage crop bids fair to be light. 



Amesbury (F. W. Sargent). — The corn crop is better than a normal 

 one; is an extraordinary crop. Rowen was not up to the usual average 

 and fall feed is exceedingly short, except on moist land. Much more 

 fall seeding would have been done with timely rains, and there is much 

 land prepared but not seeded. Onions are three-fourths of a normal 

 crop, of good quality. Early potatoes were half a crop and late varie- 

 ties give a three-fourths yield. The prospect is fair for root crops, 

 celery and other late market-garden crops, owing to drought. Apples 

 are one-third of an average crop, of good quality, but are dropping 

 because of drought. Harvesting is being done earUer than usual, the 

 hot dry weather having matured all crops, and the work progressing 

 without interruption. 



Rowley (D. H. O'Brien). — Indian corn is better than an average 

 crop. Rowen and fall feed are hardly up to the usual average. The 

 usual amount of fall seeding has been done, but the dry weather has 

 prevented germination. Very few onions are grown in this section, 

 but there is a fair crop so far as they are grown. Potatoes are 50 per 

 cent of a normal crop and the quality is below the average. The 

 prospect is rather poor for root crops, celery and other late market- 

 garden crops. Apples are a medium crop; pears fair; peaches and 

 grapes extra good; cranberries spoiled by the early frost. We have 

 remarkably heavy yields of squashes and tomatoes. 



Topsfield (B. P. Pike). — Corn is 80 per cent of a normal crop. 

 There is very little rowen and fall feed is very short. More than the 

 usual amount of fall seeding has been done, but the seed has not ger- 

 minated as yet. Onions are little raised. Potatoes are of good quality, 

 but not more than half a crop in yield. Squashes are a heavy crop; 

 other late market-garden crops fair. Apples are very uneven, some 

 having a fair crop and others very few; pears half a crop; peaches 

 half a crop ; grapes a full crop ; cranberries badly damaged by frost. 



