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products have compared favorably in price with former seasons. 



Milk sold at the door. Do not consider dairying profitable, and 



I think this is the general feeling. Farmers' wives do not like to 



make butter. 



C. W. Swain. 



NANTUCKET COUNTY. 



Nantucket. — Season not a i)rofitable one for our farmers. Hay 



and oats fairly satisfactory, and corn and potatoes practically 



failures. Season has been favorable for the production of milk 



and butter. Prices of dairy products about the same as in former 



seasons. Milk sold. Think dairying profitable for our farmers. 



Chief drawback is lack of help. 



C. W, Gardner. 



NORFOLK COUNTY. 

 Franklin. — Corn, hay and grass have been fairly satisfactory. 

 Apples and potatoes practically failures. July was a dry month, 

 and cows went back on milk badly. The rest of the season was 

 favorable. Butter five per cent higher, and milk the same as 

 last year. Milk is sent to Boston. Farmers cannot make dairy- 

 ing pay two per cent on investment. Chief drawback is that 



farmers are over-taxed and under-paid. 



C. M. Allen. 



Medivay. — Very little profit this season. Corn, blackberries, 

 hay and late cabbage have been fairly satisfactory. Potatoes, 

 two-thirds of a crop ; squash, one-half a crop ; peaches and 

 apples, one-fourth of a crop. Season favorable for the produc- 

 tion of milk and butter. Milk sent to Boston. There is no 

 profit in dairying for me. The difficulty is in getting a new dollar 



for an old one. 



Monroe Morse. 



PLYMOUTH COUNTY. 



Halifax. — Season has been profitable, and there have been no 

 entire failures. As a whole, think this season has been better 

 than the average season for the production of milk and butter. 

 Except in June, prices of dairy products have been higher than 

 for several 3'ears. Do not consider dairying profitable, but we 

 have to keep cows to make manure. Chief drawbacks are lack of 

 pasturage and co-operation. The butter industry is on the gain. 

 Last year some of the citizens helped Iniild the Plymouth County 

 Co-operative Creamer}'. Tliis gave the butter-making business 

 quite a boom in this vicinity. 



G. W. Hayward. 



