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a normal crop in value. Nearly all root crops are up to the usual 

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

 up to the average. Prices for eggs, milk and vegetables have been 

 a little higher than usual. Potatoes and hay have been our most 

 profitable crops. The season has been unfavorable for most farm 

 crops aad this, with the lack of fruit and the high prices for grain, 

 has given the farmers rather a poor year. 



BRISTOL COUNTY. 



Mansfield (Wm. C. Winter). — Indian corn is not over 50 per 

 cent of a normal crop in value. Root crops have proved to be 

 average crops. Farm stock is generally in good condition. Not 

 much fall seeding has been done, but it is generally in good con- 

 dition. Hay has brought higher prices than usual, other crops 

 about as usual. Hay and potatoes have been our most profitable 

 crops and corn and apples our least profitable ones. This being a 

 dairy section I should say the season had been about an average 

 one. 



Norton (Wm. A. Lane). — Corn is about a third of a normal 

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

 stock is in good condition. Fall seeding is looking well. Prices 

 for crops raised for market have been more than average. Potatoes 

 have been our most profitable crop and corn our least profitable 

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

 for our farmers. 



Seekonk (Fred A. Howe). — Indian corn is not more than a 

 two-thirds crop in value. Root crops have proved to be average 

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

 condition. Prices have advanced 50 per cent over average years 

 for crops raised for market. Cabbages, sweet corn and tomatoes 

 have been our most profitable crops Uud potatoes and melons our 

 least profitable ones. Considered as a whole the season has been 

 a profitable one. 



Dartmouth (L. T. Davis). — Corn is not over a one-fourth crop 

 for grain, but the stover is about normal. Root crops will be about 

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

 came up very well, but does not grow as fast as some years. 

 Prices for crops raised for market have been rather above the 

 average for some kinds. Hay has been our most profitable crop 

 and it is hard to say which crop has been least profitable, all have 

 been so variable. As a whole the farmer has not much more than 

 got a new dollar for an old one. 



Aaishnet (M. S. Douglas) . — The corn crop was almost a failure 

 and its value is a third below that of a normal crop. Root crops 



