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was one of the best crops ever known and hay is also a very heavy 

 crop. Potatoes have been our least profitable crop. Considered 

 as a whole the season has been a profitable one. Creamery patrons 

 have received a little more money than last year. 



HAMPDEN COUNTY. 



Blandford (E. W. Boise). — Root crops are up to the usual 

 average. Farm stock is in good condition. Fall seeding is 10 

 per cent below the usual average of condition. Hay is low in 

 price, dairy products about average, apples well up in price. 

 Apples are our most profitable crop and potatoes our least profit- 

 able one. All things considered our farmers have little to com- 

 plain of. The great lack now is stock to consume the hay and 

 forage crops harvested. 



Russell (E. D. Parks). — Root crops are about average. Stock 

 is looking very well, better than common. Fall seeding is look- 

 ing finely. Prices for crops have ranged about as usual. Pota- 

 toes are our most profitable crop. It is hard to say what crop has 

 been least profitable, but corn was not very good. Considered as 

 a whole the season has been a profitable one, hay is very low in 

 price but just as valuable to feed. Cider apples are in demand 

 at good prices and many have sold instead of making cider 

 themselves. 



Granville (Joseph Welch) . — Root crops are up to the usual 

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

 condition. Prices have ruled higher than formerly for those crops 

 raised for market. Apples, corn, barley, oats, and cabbages are 

 our most profitable crops and potatoes our least profitable one. 

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

 farmers. 



West Springfield (N. T. Smith). — Root crops are up to the 

 usual average. Farm stock is in fine condition as pasturage has 

 been unusually good. Less than the usual amount of fall seeding 

 has been done, but it is looking well. The best crop in yield has 

 been grass and it will prove most profitable if dairy products bring 

 a fair price. Apples, cabbages and beans have been our least 

 profitable crops. There has been but little, if any, profit this 

 season. 



Longmeadow (W. F. Emerson). — Potatoes are a light crop and 

 not as good quality as usual. Farm stock is in good condition for 

 winter. Fall seeding has taken well. Prices for farm crops have 

 been low but there have been ready sales. Hay is our most profit- 

 able crop. Apples are a very light and poor crop. The year has 



