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much fall seeding as usual, but what has been done is looking 

 well. Cranberry crop not an average owing to fire worms, which 

 have stripped many lots. Onion crop an average in quantity and 

 quality. 



A. S. Sherman. 



Sivansea. — Crop of Indian corn and rowen average ones. Late 

 potatoes about an average. The acreage of fail seeding is about 

 an average and the condition good. Much of the onion seed was 

 poor, so tliat they came tliin, but are very large, and the crop is 

 about an average one. 



V. G. Arnold. 



ESSEX COUNTY. 



Haverhill. — Crop of Indian coin mm average one. Rowen not 



quite MU average, and much dilllciilty experienced in curing it on 



account of rain and lack of sunsliine. Yield of late potatoes fair 



but considerable rot. About the average amount of fall seeding 



and it is looking well. Onion crop somewhat damaged by drought 



but about up to the average. 



E. Webster. 



Tpawieh. — The crop of Indian corn will lie al)out three-fourths 

 of an average, and rowen not more than one-third of a crop. 

 During the past fortnight the weather has been very favorable for 

 grass. Fall feed is good and growing fast, and mowing land which 

 will have no second crop to cut is getting a good root covering for 

 the winter. About the average amount of fall seeding has been 

 done, and its present condition is very favorable. Cranberries not 

 an average, as the}' did not set as thick as usual. Onions about an 

 average. First frost of the season occurred on the morning of the 

 "25tli, and was heavy enough to kill garden vines and corn stalks, 

 but not to injure late fruit. 0"'"f^''^ '^'"i* scarce, of good quality', 

 and retailing at fifty cents per peck. 



O. C. Smith. 



North Andover. — Tlie corn crop is not an average one. The 

 rowen crop is below the average. Late potatoes have rotted 

 badly, the rot appearing after all danger was supposed to be over. 

 Some are rotting that were planted early and the vines all dead by 

 the middle of Jul}' ; others appear all sound when dug and rot 

 after being put in the cellar. More fall seeding is done each year, 

 and this year with the very best results. The cranberry crop is 

 light. The onion crop is hardly up to the average in yield and 



