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ing well. Onions have been a good crop and cranberries a fair 

 one. Potatoes rotted quite badly. Apples are a small crop. 



Mattapoisett (A. R. Swift). — Root crops are up to the usual 

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

 good condition. Hay is lower and potatoes are higher in price 

 than usual ; other crops about average. Hay has been our most 

 profitable crop and oats our least profitable one. Considered as a 

 whole the season has been a profitable one. 



BARNSTABLE COUNTY. 



Bourne (D. D. Nye). — Root crops are up to the usual average. 

 Farm stock is in very good condition. Fall seeding is in fair con- 

 dition. Prices for farm crops have been about average. Hay has 

 been our most profitable crop and potatoes our least profitable one. 

 Cranberries are looking up and are a very good crop in this vicin- 

 ity. Take it as a whole this year has been as good as former years 

 and some crops have done better. 



Mashpee (W. F. Hammond). — Root crops have proved about 

 up to the average. Farm stock is looking well and bids fair to 

 enter the winter under favorable conditions. Fall seeding is look- 

 ing well. Market crops have brought about average prices. Hay 

 has been our most profitable crop and corn our least profitable one. 

 The season has been a profitable one for our farmers. 



Barnstable (John Bursley). — Root crops are up to the usual 

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

 condition. Prices have been about as for the last few year's. 

 Cranberries have been our most profitable crop although they suf- 

 fered from scald and early frost ; better prices are indicated for 

 the late keepers. Absolutely no apples in this section. The sea- 

 son has been a moderately profitable one. 



Chatham (E. Z. Ryder). — In some cases lack of rain has short- 

 ened the root crops, which otherwise would have been above the 

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

 ing well. Prices of market crops have compared well with former 

 years. Hay has been our most profitable crop and corn our least 

 profitable one. Cranberries are considerably below an average 

 crop, owing to extremely hot weather which scalded the berries. 

 Considered as a whole the season is a little above the average. 



Eastham (J. A. Clark). — Root crops promise well. Farm 

 stock is in good condition. Not much fall seeding has been done, 

 but what there is in looks well. Prices for root crops have been 

 about average. Asparagus is the leading crop and has probably 

 been the most profitable one. The profit of the season will de- 



