Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Eighteenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture: With an Appendix Containing Reports of Delegates Appointed to Visit the County Exhibitions, and Also Returns of the Finances of the Agricultural Societies for 1870
The crop, of course, felt the effects of the drought. The grass in the pastures dried up, and the mowing stubbles were burned by the sun. Indian corn, among the best of cultivated plants to test the qualities Of the season, actually died out on many an acre, and the root-crops ceased to grow on ordinary upland soils and many of them died about the middle Of sum mer, the rains arriving so late in September that they failed to revive them in season to enable them to make much growth, though such of them as survived the dry weather unharmed made a wonderful progress later in the season.
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