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our most profitable crop. The dry weather cut off some crops and 

 made a short hay crop, but the farmers put in an uncommonly 

 large amount of forage crops, so that nearly all will be able to 

 winter the usual amount of stock, although most farmers are sell- 

 ing all surplus young stock and weeding out the poorer cows. 



Princeton (A. O. Tyler). — Root crops are up to the usual 

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

 good condition. Potatoes bring average prices ; apples low ; root 

 crops about as usual. Corn and grass have been our most profit- 

 able crops and potatoes our least profitable one. The season has 

 not been a profitable one ; although milk has sold for a little more 

 than usual it has cost more to make it than the increased price 

 would cover. 



Harvard (J. S. Preston). — Root crops are fairly good. Farm 

 stock is looking fairly well. Fall seeding is looking well but needs 

 rain. Prices for farm crops have been rather higher than usual. 

 Apples and hay have been our most profitable crops and potatoes 

 our least profitable ones. On the whole, the season has been a 

 profitable one. Pastures and mowings have not looked as well 

 since early summer as they do now. 



Northborough (J. K. Mills). — Root crops are not up to the 

 usual average, owing to dry weather. Farm stock is in good con- 

 dition where the pastures were not overstocked. Fall seeding is 

 in good condition, though little has been done. Prices for farm 

 crops have been about the same as usual. Asparagus, potatoes 

 and milk have been our most profitable products and onions, cab- 

 bages and apples our least profitable ones. Our farmers will be 

 able, at least most of them, to pay their bills and perhaps pay 2 

 per cent on the money invested. 



Holden (G. S.Graham). — Late root crops have grown fast 

 during the warm autumn weather and look well. Farm stock is 

 thin in flesh and those coming from pastures have gained but little 

 since turning out. Fall seeding has done finely of late and is 

 nearly up to the average. Prices for farm crops have kept up 

 very well, but are hardly up to the increased cost of production. 

 Corn and ensilage corn have been our most profitable crops and 

 hay has been very disappointing. The season has not been a 

 very profitable one as the high cost of grain and labor have more 

 than offset any little gain in prices. 



Oxford (D. M. Howe). — Farm stock is in very good condition 

 just at present. Fall seeding is in good condition. Prices for 

 crops raised for market have been about average. Apples have 

 been our most profitable crop and potatoes our least profitable 

 one. The season has been a profitable one, taken as a whole. 



