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crop a good one. The season has been a little less profitable than 

 usual. 



Groveland (Abel Stickney) . — Root crops have proved to be 

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

 not in first-class shape. Prices for apples less than average, but 

 I think the crop is profitable. Hay has been our most profitable 

 crop and cranberries our least profitable one. Not a particularly 

 profitable season ; farmers feel the hard times ; produce is low 

 and sales slow. 



JSfewbury (Gr. W. Adams). — Root crops have proved to be 

 average. Farm stock is in fair to good condition. Very little fall 

 seeding has been done ; condition poor to fair. Prices for apples 

 lower than usual, as compared with size of crop ; barrels high, 

 labor scarce ; not very profitable. Potatoes have been our most 

 profitable crop, and strawberries, especially the later kinds, the 

 least profitable. The season has been profitable so far as the pro- 

 duction of a good crop means profit, but the crops do not sell. 



North Andover (Peter Holt, Jr.). — Roots are hardly an aver- 

 age, the dry weather causing a small growth. Farm stock is in 

 fairly good condition. Late sown seed looks fully as well as that 

 sown earlier. Winter apples found a quick sale at $1 per barrel ; 

 fall apples were very cheap. Potatoes were our most profitable 

 crop and cabbages our least profitable one. Farmers have made 

 less money than usual. 



Ipstvich (O. C. Smith). — Most root crops are up to the average, 

 except on very dry soils. Stock generally is in good condition. 

 Fall seeding somewhat backward from drought, but generally a 

 good catch. Prices very low for fall apples, about average for 

 winter fruit ; as profitable as any crop. Hay and fruit have been 

 our most profitable crops, and potatoes our least profitable one. 

 Profits will be small, and not up to the average. 



Danvers (C. H. Pkeston). — Root crops are fair. Fall seeding 

 is in good condition. The prices for apples are low and the profit 

 small. Considered as a whole, the season has not been a profitable 

 one for our farmers. 



NORFOLK COUNTY. 



Medway (Monroe Morse). — Farm stock is in good condition. 

 Fall seeding is as good as usual. Apples are selling at canning 

 factories at 75 cents per barrel ; last year, $1 ; hand-picked for 

 winter use, $1.25 ; rather low. 



Millis (E. F. Richardson). — Root crops not average. Farm 

 stock in fair condition. Fall seeding in fair condition. Apples 

 an immense crop in this locality ; prices low, but crop profitable. 



