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Montague (C. S. Raymond). — Root crops of all kinds are about 

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

 is backward but is in fairly good condition. Potatoes are a little 

 higher in [trice than last year ; other crops about the same. Pota- 

 toes have been our most profitable crop and onions our least profit- 

 able one. The season has been a profitable one, considered as a 

 whole. Grass roots are in fair condition on good soil, but are 

 rather feeble on light, thin soil. 



New Salem (Daniel Ballard). — Root crops have been a little 

 short on dry ground, but on rich, moist soil are above the average. 

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

 fairly well, though but little was done. Prices for farm crops have 

 been well sustained. Corn has been our most profitable crop, hav- 

 ing suffered less from drought than any other, and hay our least 

 profitable one. The season has been fairly profitable as farming 

 goes, the profits seldom being large. 



HAMPSHIRE COUNTY. 



Prescott (W. F. Wendermoth). — Root crops are good average 

 crops. Farm stock is in fair condition. Very little fall seeding 

 has been done. Potatoes bring higher prices than usual, apples 

 lower ; on the whole, average prices prevail. Corn and apples 

 are our most profitable crops and hay and potatoes our least prof- 

 itable ones. The season has hardly been an average one for profit, 

 since cream and veal are the principal money products, and the 

 short hay crop and dry pastures have reduced the total amount 

 produced. 



Enfield (D. O. Chickering). — Root crops suffered from the 

 drought and are not quite up to the average. Farm stock is look- 

 ing well for the most part. Fall seeding is in good condition. 

 Prices for crops raised for market have been fully up to the aver- 

 age. The corn crop has been unusually good and is perhaps as 

 profitable as any. Hay has been our least profitable crop. Con- 

 sidered as a whole, the season has been a profitable one. 



Belchertown (H. C. West). — Root crops are fully up to the 

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

 in fair condition, although somewhat late. Hay, potatoes and 

 dairy products bring higher prices than usual ; other crops about 

 the same. Hay. potatoes and dairy products have been our most 

 profitable lines and apples our least profitable crop, although good 

 in both quantity and quality. The farmers have little reason to 

 complain, crops being bountiful and the fall season the best for 

 harvesting in many years. 



