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Profits or the Season. 

 Judging from the returns the season just closing has been 

 rather more profitable than usual for our farmers. Potatoes 

 and apples are the only principal crops showing a general 

 shortage, and the unusually high prices received for these 

 crops have made up in a measure, though probably not 

 entirely, for this shortage. The heavy hay crop has 

 been particularly to the advantage of our dairy farmers, 

 and the good corn crop comes in well with the present 

 shortage elsewhere and the prevailing high prices of grain. 

 Of 151 correspondents answering the question as to the 

 profits of the season, 86 regard the season as profitable, 17 

 as an average one for profit and 19 as fairly profitable, 

 while 29 think that it has not been a profitable one. 



Use of Smoke to prevent Frost. 

 The special inquiry as to the use of smoke to prevent in- 

 jury from frost did not develop much of interest. About a 

 dozen correspondents report that smoke has been used in 

 their vicinity to protect cranberries, strawberries, peach buds 

 or vegetables, with varying success, the majority holding 

 that the success achieved has not been such as to particularly 

 commend the practice. 



