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prices. Hay has been our most profitable crop. All our leading 

 crops have yielded fairly well. The apple crop is about one-half 

 of an average crop, but the quality is above the average and they 

 are selling at good prices. Considered as a whole the season has 

 been a profitable one. 



Canton (E. V. Kinsley). — Root crops are up to the usual aver- 

 age. Farm stock is in very good condition. Fall seeding is look- 

 ing well. Prices for farm crops have ruled low. Hay, apples and 

 tomatoes have been our most profitable crops and potatoes our 

 least profitable one. Winter cabbage and turnips are very good 

 but have not yet been gathered. The season has been a fairly 

 profitable one. The mainstay of the farmers in this locality is the 

 sale of milk and there has been a demand for all dairy products. 

 Winter apples are about harvested and are of good quality, though 

 I find the Baldwins inclined to decay thus early. 



DedJiam (A. W. Cheeveu). — Root crops are fully up to the 

 usual average. Farm stock is generally in good condition. Fall 

 seediug is in better than average condition. There is no particular 

 difi'erence in the price of farm crops. The season has been gen- 

 erally favorable to the growth of crops, but prices do not give 

 much profit after expenses and taxes are paid. 



Medway (Monroe Morse). — Root crops are up to the usual 

 average. Fall seeding is in good condition. Prices for farm crops 

 have been low this season. Almost all the leading crops have 

 been unprofitable. The hay crop was very heavy and of average 

 quality, but the price is so low that a half crop at old prices 

 would be more profitable. There is no profit in farming now. 



Norjolk (G. E. Holbrook). — Root crops are up to the usual 

 average. Feed holds out as green and nice as in June and farm 

 stock is in good condition. Fall seeding is looking finely. Pota- 

 toes are lower in price than usual ; all other crops bring better 

 prices. Early potatoes and tomatoes are our most profitable crops 

 and corn and late potatoes our least profitable ones. I think the 

 live farmer who is not afraid to work has no cause to complain. 



Franklin (C. M.Allen). — Root crops are up to the usual 

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

 average condition. Prices for farm crops have ruled about aver- 

 age. Fruit has been our most profitable crop and potatoes our 

 least profitable one. Considered as a whole the season has not 

 been a profitable one. There can be no profit so long as the farmer 

 is legally plundered by combined capital. 



