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Field mice did much damage to grass aud destroyed many young 

 trees last winter, and this fall are much more numerous than last 

 year. 



Royalston (C. A. Stimson.) — Indian corn is almost up to the 

 normal in value. Root crops are up to the usual average. Farm 

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

 Prices for crops raised for market have been up to the average. 

 Corn has been our most profitable crop and apples our least profit- 

 able one. Considered as a whole, the season has been a profitable 

 one for our farmers. 



Gardner (A. F. Johnson). — Root crops are up to the usual 

 average. Farm stock is in good condition. There is not much 

 change in the prices of crops raised for market. Milk has been 

 our most profitable product. Considered as a whole, the season 

 has been about an average one for profit in this locality. 



Fitchbnrg ( Jabez Fisher) 1 do not think the farming inter- 

 est as a whole has laid by any money without abstinence from com- 

 forts and luxuries to which it is fully entitled, considering the labor 

 and effort expended. The profit obtained by any one class is 

 gained from some other class, and the gain in the one case is an 

 equivalent offset for the loss in the other. This cannot be other- 

 wise while competition is the underlying motive of civilization. 

 Only co-operation can make it otherwise. 



Harvard (John S. Preston). — Corn is a good average crop. 

 Root crops are up to the usual average. Farm stock is looking 

 well, pastures having held out well and fall feed being good. Fall 

 seeding is in good shape. Prices for crops raised for market have 

 been better than for some years. Hay is the leading crop here, as 

 our farmers work for milk, and has been good, while apples have 

 been our least profitable crop, late fall and winter varieties not 

 paying for the barrels and work of picking. As milk has been 

 very low in price all summer our farmers have had a hard year. 



Lancaster (S. C. Damon). — Indian corn is about two-thirds of 

 a normal crop. Root crops are up to the usual average. Farm 

 stock is in good couditiou. Fall seeding is in good condition. 

 Prices for crops raised for market have been about the same as 

 usual. Grass has been our most profitable ciop and potatoes our 

 least profitable one. The season has been a profitable one, except 

 for the low price of apples. 



Worcester (Silas A. Burgess). — Indian corn is fully up to the 

 normal in value. Root crops, except potatoes, are up to the usual 

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

 good condition. Prices for crops raised for market have been 



