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:j^otes of cokrespondents. 



(Returned to us October 22.) 



BERKSHIRE COUNTY. 



Sheffield (DwiGHT Andrews.) — Root crops are fully up to the 

 average. Farm stock is looking well. Fall seeding is looking 

 finely. Full average prices have prevailed for crops raised for 

 market. Apples, corn and buckwheat have been our most profit- 

 able crops. Farmers have no reason to complain of the present 

 season. 



Alford (L. T. Osborne) . — Root crops are a good average. Farm 

 stock is in much better condition than usual, having had better 

 feed. Fall seeding is in fine condition. The price of hay is lower 

 than usual, other crops about the same. Hay has been our most 

 profitable crop and corn our least profitable one. The season has 

 been about an average one, though some think it is below the 

 average. The lowest prices ever known have been received for 

 butter and eggs, for three months in the spring the creamery re- 

 turned only 13 cents and the price of eggs was only 10 cents. 



Monterey (Wm. S. Bidwell). — Root crops are about average. 

 Farm stock is in good condition. Very little fall seeding has been 

 done. Prices have ranged about as usual or a little higher. Pota- 

 toes, cabbages and turnips have been our most profitable crops, 

 but some fields of potatoes have been almost total failures. Con- 

 sidered as a whole the season has been a profitable one. Our 

 principal industry is grazing and dairying and beef and butter 

 have been higher than for the past few years. 



Otis (S. H. Norton). —Root crops are about average. Farm 

 stock is in good condition. Very little fall seeding has been done. 

 Prices for farm crops are about average except for hay. Corn and 

 potatoes have been the most profitable crops, and hay has been the 

 least profitable as there is no sale for it. I think the season has 

 been an average one for the farmers. Stock of all kinds is scarce 

 and high. 



