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Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
October 16, 1822 Page 2
Concord, N. H., Sept 30
Contributed by Nancy Piper

The corn is at this time ripe in the fields just fit for the harvest; and New Hampshire never exhibited finer and heavier fields. It is believed all was out of the way of “Jack Frost” when he commenced his attacks. Potatoes, turnips and almost every kind of vegetable, have been attended by a growth, whose luxuriance was scarcely if ever exceeded. But the apple trees – we scarcely know how to describe their appearance. It would seem as if the whole growth of some trees could be intended to produce only one year’s crop like the present. There appears to be, at least, a crop of three ordinary seasons in one. Farmers, in laying in their store of cider, ought to calculate for not less than two years. And not only there are more in number, but the size of the apple is increased. To the south, larger fruit of most kinds is produced than to the north. This may be seen in the orchards of Massachusetts contrasted with those of Hampshire. The largest apple we have had any account of the present year was one at Marblehead, which weighed about 23 ounces. In the orchard of Major Stark, at Dunbarton, last Thursday, one of the editors picked up four apples lying side by side as they fell from the tree which weighed more than three pounds; and Mr. Gale, of this town, showed another, weighing a little over seventeen ounces.

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