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Hanson. — Considered as a whole, the season has been a profit- 

 able one. Potatoes and nearly all garden stuff have been fairh' 

 satisfactory. Beans have not ripened. Season favorable for the 

 production of milk and butter, exce[)t during time of drouth. 

 Prices of dairy products about the same as in former seasons. 

 Dairy products sold to neiglibors and local stores. Consider 

 dairying profitable for our farmers, but the chief drawback is that 

 they cannot sell their butter readily. Ten or twenty years ago 

 the farmer depended mucli upon his wood-lot to make ends meet, 

 but now hard wood can scarcely be sold at any price. 



Dr. F. 8. Thomas. 



Middleborough. — Season not a profitable one. Corn, onions 

 and liay fairly satisfactory, and fruit practically a failure. Season 

 favorable for the production of milk and butter. Prices of dairy 

 products about the same as last year. Milk sold. Do not con- 

 sider dairying profitable, owing to too low prices for milk and too 

 higli for grain. 



A. H. Eaton. 



worcp:stkr county . 



Barre. — Season fairly profitable for our farmers. Corn and 

 grass fairly satisfactory. Oats, potatoes and fruit practically 

 failures. Season favorable for the production of milk and butter, 

 liutter lower in price, as compared with former seasons. Milk 

 sold in Boston. Small profit in dairying. Chief drawbacks are 

 overproduction and not strength in the milk union. 



J. L. Smith. 



Bolton. — While many crops have been light, on account of the 

 early drouth or the excessive autumn rains, prices obtained for 

 the same have been very satisfactor}' ; so that, on the whole, we 

 sometimes think half a crop is worth about as much as one 

 of abundance. Potatoes, apples, onions, squashes and turnips are 

 selling well ; and, taking the season as a whole, we think that the 

 farmer who has labored diligently through dry and wet in the care 

 of his crops has no reason to complain of tlie remuneration 

 received for his labor. Season has been favorable for the produc- 

 tion of milk and butter. The milk is nearh' all sold to supph' 

 large villages, or shipped to Boston. Dairying not profitable, 

 at present prices, although it may pay as well as any branch of 

 farming. The only trouble is that there is too much milk made 



for the demand. 



H. F. Haynes. 



