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reports show that there will be practically no peaches and very 

 few pears. Grapes are a fair crop, but not up to the average. 

 Quinces are few and unpromising. Cranberries are reported 

 as not more than half a crop from southeastern sections, hav- 

 ing suffered from drought, so that the berries are very small. 

 In the cranberry district there has been practically no rain 

 since early in June, and this long-continued drought has had 

 its effect on cranberries, as well as other crops. Fruits in 

 all sections have suffered from drought, and are generally 

 reported as small in size. 



Oats and Barley. 

 Oats were an average crop, where raised for grain. Barley 

 is little raised for grain, and late-sown fields grown for 

 forage are making little progress, owing to dry weather. 



Root Crops. 



Root crops are little grown in western sections for any pur- 

 pose, the silo having supplanted them for stock feeding, and 

 there being little market for them for other purposes. In 

 eastern sections they are grown to a considerable extent by 

 market gardeners and others for the market, but only to a 

 limited degree for stock feeding. On Cape Cod, where tur- 

 nips are quite a specialty in ordinary years, very few have 

 been sown, owing to the dryness of the ground, and those put 

 in have made but little o;rowth. 



