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from the high prices of last year. Of the 113 correspondents 

 answering this question, 21 speak of prices as higher than 

 usual, 66 as average or about average, and 26 as lower than 

 usual. 



Most Pkofitable Ceops. 

 Sixty-one correspondents, a bare majority, consider corn 

 to have been among the most profitable crops; 53, hay; 14, 

 potatoes; 7, onions; 5, tobacco; 5, cranberries; 4, straw- 

 berries; 4, cabbages; 4, tomatoes; 3, oats; 3, fruit; 3, aspar- 

 agus; 3, sweet corn; 2, apples; 2, forage crops; 2, celery; 

 2, berries; 2, cauliflower; 2, peaches; 1, garden crops; 



1, peas; 1, milk; 1, squashes; 1, beets; and 1, turnips. 



Least Peofitable Ceops. 

 Seventy-six correspondents, considerably over a majority, 

 consider potatoes to have been among the least profitable 

 crof»s; 19, apples; 8, hay; 5, tomatoes; 4, beans; 3, cabbages; 



2, fruit ; 2, squashes ; 2, carrots ; 2, sweet corn ; 2, root crops ; 

 2, milk; 2, turnips; 1, barley; 1, late vegetables; 1, late 

 cabbages ; 1, grapes ; 1, cauliflower ; 1, cucumbers ; and 

 1, strawberries. 



Peofits of the Season. 



There appears to be a wide variation of opinion as to 

 whether the season has been a profitable one. The general 

 determination would appear to be against its having been 

 profitable. Some of the reasons given are the prolonged 

 drought, short crops, low prices, and especially the high price 

 of grain and other supplies. Of the 120 correspondents 

 answering this question, only 1 considers the season to have 

 been unusually profitable; 14 call it an average season for 

 profit ; 18 say that it was fairly profitable ; 35, that it was a 

 profitable season ; while 11 say that it was below the average 

 for profit ; and 41 flatly state that it was not a profitable 

 season. 



Effects of Deought. 



The prolonged drought seems to have had very little effect 

 upon vegetation, crops generally having progressed so far as 

 to be beyond its worst influences. It undoubtedly shortened 



