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portion of this help is of foreign parentage?" The follow- 

 ing tal)le will give the results obtained : — 



In Dukes County one-half of the farm help was reported 

 to be of foreign parentage, mostly Portuguese ; in Swanzey, 

 nine out of every ten were reported to be of the same 

 nationality. In Ipswich, Littleton, Marshfield, Bolton and 

 Southborough, nearly all of the farm help came from the 

 Provinces, chietly from Nova Scotia. In the market gardens 

 about Boston many French Canadians are employed. In 

 the Connecticut valley much of the farm help are natives of 

 Poland. 



In order to ascertain the feeling among our farmers con- 

 cerning the outlook for them, the following question was 

 asked: ."Is the outlook in your locality as favorable for 

 farmers as it was ten years ago ? " To this question one hun- 

 dred and eleven replies were received, of which forty-two 

 state the outlook to be as favorable, nine that it is more 

 favorable, and sixty that it is not as favorable. From the 

 replies received, the outlook for farmers appears to be less 

 favorable now than ten years ao-o in the counties of Essex, 

 Franklin, Hampshire, Ham[)den and Worcester, and as 

 favorable in the counties of Barnstable, Berkshire, Bristol, 

 Dukes, Middlesex, Nantucket, Norfolk and Plymouth. 



