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Westport (A. S. Sherman). — Root crops are up to the usual 

 average. Farm stock is.in first-class condition. Fall seeding is in 

 very good condition. Prices are rather better than in average years. 

 Hay has been our most profitable crop and potatoes our least 

 profitable one, on account of blight and rot. The season has 

 been as profitable as the average year, but the profits on the farm 

 are always small. Corn made a great growth of fodder but did 

 not ear out well. Oats did not amount to much. Turnips and 

 cabbages promise large crops. Plenty of pears, peaches and 

 grapes, but apples are scarce and of poor quality. We have had 

 very little frost this fall and pastures are looking finely. 



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Brockton (Davis Copeland). — Root crops are about three- 

 fourths crops. Farm stock is in good condition. Fall seeding 

 looks well. Prices for crops raised for market are fully as good 

 as usual, and perhaps a little better. Hay has been our most prof- 

 itable crop and peas our least profitable one. The season has 

 hardly been a profitable one, those who have made a profit being 

 lucky. With some of our farmers the potato crop has been most 

 profitable, while with others it has been hardly worth digging. 

 Torches or smoke are neither of them used to prevent frost. 



Hanson (Dr. F. S. Thomas). — Root crops are far below the 

 average. Farm stock is in good condition. Fall seeding is in 

 good condition. Prices for farm crops average higher than usual. 

 Potatoes very small. Almost no pumpkins or squashes. No 

 apples worth mentioning. Summer gardens good. Hay good in 

 quantity and quality ; big second crop. Pastures good the whole 

 season. Considered as a whole the season has been a profitable 

 one. 



Pembroke (Nathaniel Morton). — Root crops are up to the 

 usual average. Farm stock is in very good condition. Fall seed- 

 ing is in quite fair condition. Prices for crops raised for market 

 have been higher than in former years. Cranberries have been 

 our most profitable crop and apples our least profitable one. Con- 

 sidered as a whole the season has been a profitable one for our 

 farmers. Torches and smoke are used somewhat to prevent frost, 

 but with limited success. 



Duxbury (S. P. Soule). — Taken as a whole root crops have 

 proved to be average crops. Farm stock is generally looking well. 

 But little fall seeding has been done in this section, but that in is 

 looking well. Prices for crops raised for market will compare 

 favorabl}^ with other years. Potatoes have been our most profit- 



