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lower than in former years. Hay has been our most profitable 

 crop and potatoes our least profitable one. Hay is a fair crop ; 

 corn very good ; potatoes rather slim, owing to blight ; onions 

 good ; turnips fair, have suffered from dry weather ; apples scarce 

 and poor ; pears plenty ; grapes abundant. 



PLYMOUTH COUNTY. 



West Bridgewater (F. E. Howard). — Root crops have proved 

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

 in fair condition. Prices of crops are rather lower than usual 

 with the exception of hay. Hay has been our most profitable crop 

 and corn our least profitable one. The season has been more prof- 

 itable than some previous ones for the farmer. 



Marshfield (J. H. Bourne). — Root crops are fully as good as 

 usual. Farm stock is in good condition. Fall seeding is not as 

 good as usual on the whole, owing to dry weather. Prices for 

 crops raised for market have been somewhat lower than usual, es- 

 pecially potatoes. Milk has yielded us the most profit of any farm 

 product and apples the least. On the whole the season is nearly 

 as good as usual. 



Lakeville (Elbridge Cushman). — Root crops have proved to 

 be average crops. Farm stock is in fair condition. Fall seeding 

 is in fair condition. Prices never were so low in my memory. Hay 

 has been our most profitable crop and potatoes our least profitable 

 one. The season will not be a profitable one. Most crops have 

 made abundant yields but as a rule prices are below the cost of 

 production. Also the large crops have necessitated an extra 

 amount of labor to handle them. 



BARNSTABLE COUNTY. 



Falmouth (D. R. Wicks). — It has been too dry for root crops 

 and they are small. Stock is in good condition as feed has been 

 good this fall. What fall seeding has been done is very good. 

 Prices have been low and are low now. Potatoes have been our 

 most profitable crop and turnips our least profitable one. Taken as 

 a whole the season has not been a profitable one. 



Mashpee (W. F. Hammond). — Root crops are above the aver- 

 age. Farm stock is in very good condition. P'all seeding is in 

 fair condition. Prices have been above the average. Cranberries 

 have been our most profitable crop and corn our least profitable 

 one. The season has been, on the whole, a profitable one. 



Barnstable (John Bursley) . — Root crops have proved to be 

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

 poor condition. Prices have been 25 per cent lower than in former 



