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profitable. Potatoes are a very light crop and there are no apples. 

 The season has been fairly profitable, though many will miss the 

 proceeds of the apple crop. Cows have done well and though 

 milk is low it pays better than anything else a farmer can raise 

 on these hill farms. 



Oakham (Jesse Allen) . — Root crops have proved to be good 

 average crops. Farm stock is in excellent condition. Fall seeding 

 is in excellent condition. The prices for crops raised for market 

 have been fully average. Milk has been our most profitable product 

 as grass and fall feed have been abundant. Fruit has been our 

 least profitable product. Considered as a whole the season has 

 been a profitable one. Neither torches nor smoke are used to pre- 

 vent frost. 



Hubbardston (C. C. .Colby). — Root crops have been far below 

 the average in yield. Stock is looking well and prices hold high. 

 P'all seeding is looking excellently. All produce has been bringing 

 good prices, generally above the average. Corn has been our most 

 profitable crop. Potatoes have been below the average in yield, 

 but above in price. Considered as a whole the season has been 

 an unusually good one for our farmers. Torches or smoke are not 

 used to prevent frost. 



Templeton (Lucien Gove). — Root crops are uneven and hardly 

 average crops. Farm stock is in quite good condition. The 

 weather conditions have been favorable to fall seeding, but little 

 has been done. The range of prices for crops raised for market 

 has been higher than for some time. Hay, corn, cabbages, forage 

 crops and roots have been our most profitable crops and apples and 

 other fruits, potatoes, peas and squashes our least profitable ones. 

 The season has been less profitable than usual, for although prices 

 were good salable crops were light. 



Royalston (C. A. Stimson). — Root crops are up to the usual 

 average. Farm stock is in fine condition. Fall seeding is in fair 

 condition. Prices for crops raised for market have been higher 

 than in former years. Corn has been our most profitable crop and 

 potatoes our least profitable one. Considered as a whole the sea- 

 son has been a profitable one for our farmers. Neither torches 

 nor smoke are used in this locality to prevent frost. 



Ashburnham (E. D. Gibson). — Carrots are a light crop and 

 beets and turnips hardly average. Farm stock will go into the 

 barns in fine condition. Fall seeding put in in August and early 

 September looks well. Prices for crops raised for market have 

 been better than in former years. Indian corn has been our most 

 profitable crop. Squashes have been a dead failure. The season 

 has been a fairly profitable one, better than in 1900. Hardly 



