it does not pay, attribute it to the sterility of the soil, or the drought, or anything but their own lack of understanding their own business, and the best method of producing paying crops.

CANDIA.

1. General farming, orcharding, gardening, potatoes and hay are prominent. Farmers-J. Q. Cass, French Smith, fruit; J. R. Fitts, hay; J. W. Sargent, Benj. Cass, C. M. French, Francis Patten, Gordon Bean.

2. Crops, lighter than usual, except fruit, which was above the average.

3. Dairy products, fruits, stock, hay, wood and timber.

4. No farmers' club.

5. Grub and wire-worm; remedy, late fall plowing for former, and plowing in spring but once for latter. Other common insects prevail.

6. Superphosphate, poudrette, plaster, lime and ashes applied in hill, with results varying according to the soil.

7. All implements, with much saving of labor.

8. A few Short Horns and Jerseys, nearly full blood, also "Cream-pots."

9. No difference per acre, but less in amount, because less land is tilled.

10. Don't attend fairs generally; reason, they are humbugs and devoted to "horse-trots."

11. Take the agricultural papers and read some books.

12. Very few keep farm accounts and do not experiment much.

DEERFIELD.

1. No specialties. Potatoes, beef, pork and fruit are promi

nent.

2. Crops, lighter than usual; wheat and oats, about the average; barley, a failure; potatoes, one-third of a crop; corn, one-third; hay, two-thirds.

3. For farmers, apples and stock. Three manufactories for shoes.

4. A club. President, E. P. Chase; Secretary, H. C. Walker. Held no meetings the past winter.

5. Caterpillars to apple-trees; remedy, destroy their nests when the insects are just hatched.

6. Superphosphate, plaster, and gypsum, applied to corn and potatoes.

7. Mowing-machine and horse-hoe.

8. Short Horns and Jerseys.

9. Larger on the average.

One stock horse.

10. Generally go to fairs. Do not exhibit because expenses and trouble are more than receipts in premiums, etc.

11. Take the papers generally.

12. Do not know whether farmers keep accounts.

DERRY.

1. Some of the farmers in town are Col. G. W. Lane,-specialty, milk and pork; Harvey P. Hood, Joseph Montgomery, milk; Samuel Wilson, G. N. Proctor, fruit; John Folsom, milk and beef; Joshua Morse, George W. Dickey, George I. Choate, George W. Ballou, Cummings True, Lewis S. Morris, S. W. Parshley, W. H. Shepard, Henry N. Bullard, J. R. Clark, N. H. Brown, milk.

2. Crops for 1870: Hay, grain, corn, fifteen per cent. below average of ordinary years; potatoes, twenty per cent. below; fruit, largely above.

3. Milk and fruits: Milk sent to Boston by car, daily, (Sundays excepted in winter); daily production, four hundred cans; average price per can of seven quarts, about thirty cents, at depot; other sources of income limited in particular cases; large in aggregate.

4. H. P. Hood, President farmers' club.

5. No answer.

6. Plaster, leached ashes and superphosphate of lime, spread broadcast and in hill with good results.

7. New and improved implements generally introduced, resulting in great saving of manual labor.

8. Col. G. W. Lane has an Ayrshire bull and Chester county boar. No stock horses in town. But little stock raised. Careful selections of native cows are made for producing milk.

9. Products per acre of crops nearly the same as ten years ago. 10. To some extent.

11. To considerable extent.

12. Not sufficiently.

Probably a general improvement is going on by repairs of buildings, clearing fields and pastures, draining, etc.

A larger application of capital and labor is needed; pastures too

much neglected; great losses in amount and quality of manures are allowed; not a sufficient number of teams kept to do the work required; too much hay sold from town; public roads not in satisfactory condition; farms too much sub-divided and partition fences not satisfactory; but little concerted action in introducing improvements; but little attention paid to appearance of portions of farms bordering on public roads.

Yet by comparison the farming interest stands well, and we hope to improve rapidly. Individual example is doing considerable to awaken an interest in improvements. The press and agricultural societies must do the rest.

EPPING.

1. Farming, gardening and fruit by J. C. Burley, J. F. Lawrence, S. P. Dow, Prescott Chase, J. L. Folsom, N. G. and W. L. Plumer, Daniel Dow.

2. Crops, below the average, excepting fruit.

3. Mixed agriculture, hay, fruit, gardening.

4. A good club. President, S. P. Dow; Secretary, J. B. Chase. 5. No canker-worms.

6. Superphosphates largely, with good results.

7. Mowers, rakes, plows, &c; great advantage.

8. No blood stock. Prices doubled in twenty years.

9. Not much change.

10. Attend county fairs, carry some stock.

11. Take papers generally.

12. Few farmers experiment and keep accounts.

FREMONT.

1. Alvah Sanborn, Sherburne Sanborn, Daniel C. Hooke, Ezra Currier, Benning S. Scribner, Horatio Beede, Phinehas Beede, Josiah B. Robinson. Attention given to general farm products and stock raising. No specialties. Geo. F. Beede, garden vegetables for market, seed potatoes, common farm products and stock raising.

2. Oats and small grain, about one-half the usual crop; potatoes, one-third; corn, nearly an average crop; hay, below.

3. Chief source of income, lumber and wood, not much from any other source; a trifle realized from stock, fruit and potatoes.

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4. No farmers' club and no material from which to organize

5. The maggot injures onions when we try to raise them; fine sawdust sprinkled liberally upon the rows just before they come up is the best known remedy. The cabbage-fly is troublesome. A preventive is to dust plants when wet with bone dust, ashes or plaster. Bugs on vines - protect with boxes and muslin top till plants get of sufficient size to resist their attacks, or, what is cheaper, take two sticks about two feet long, stick both ends in the ground, crossing over the hill, and cover with old newspapers; the plants will burst through and thrive finely, but should be thinned before covering. Common grub or cut-worm is plenty some years; dig out and kill. Borers are pests to our apple trees; little done to protect their ravages.

6. Bradley's and Croasdale's superphosphates of lime used to a limited extent; mostly applied in the hill for all tilled crops; no complaint but what they pay to buy and use.

7. Mowing-machines have been introduced; horse-rakes, with decided advantages. We average about an acre of grass per hour with machine and pair of horses.

8. One herd of Devon stock in town owned by Geo. F. Beede, consisting of ten cows and heifers, and one bull, all thoroughbred animals. Horses and neat stock have advanced full one hundred per cent.

9. Should think farm products were about the same as twenty years ago, potatoes may yield less, perhaps.

10. Our farmers have not made any exhibition of stock at fairs, have frequently shown farm products, generally attend fairs to some extent. There is not much stock worthy of exhibition; the expense and trouble of getting to and from the fairs, also the care while there, deters some from making an exhibition, no doubt.

11. A few agricultural papers taken, mostly weeklies; not many agricultural books read; one private library of some sixty volumes; not much brain work shown to improve the methods of cultivation; if there is any study it does not get to the surface, the soil does not receive the benefit of it.

12. A few farm accounts kept, and experiments made; when so kept and made we endeavor to profit by the results.

KENSINGTON.

1. Stock-raising, hay and grain by Stephen, Joseph and J. W. Brown, J. L. Lamprey, D. G. York and T. K. Mace.

2. Corn, hay and grain, about the average; potatoes, below; fruit, abundant.

3. No answer.

4. A club. President, John A. Blake; Secretary, Charles E. Tuck.

5. No answer.

6. No answer.

7. Mowers and tedders; saving of labor.

8. Dutch, Devon, Jersey, Short Horn and Alderney.

9. Corn, greater; potatoes, less; grain, average.

10. Attend fairs generally and exhibit.

11. Take agricultural papers and read some books. 12. Do not experiment much.

KINGSTON.

1. Farm products and fruits, by F. Sanborn, Frank Spofford, R. B. Bartlett and Oren Smith.

2. Corn, barley and oats, average; potatoes, one-fourth crop; apples, four times the average.

3. Farm products, stock, manufacturing carriages and shoes. 4. No farmers' club.

5. Striped bug; remedy, slaked lime or sulphur.

6. Superphosphates and ashes-results good.

7. Mowers and rakes-much saving of labor.

8. Two Dutch bulls, one stock horse. Prices doubled in twenty years.

9. About the same.

10. To some extent.

11. Not so extensively as would be for their benefit.

12. Not generally.

LONDONDERRY.

1. Aaron P. Hardy, Wm. S. Pillsbury, Capt. Wm. Holmes and Matthew Holmes, hay, milk and apples; Col. J. Savory, hay, milk and onions; Reed P. Clark and John R. Emery, hay and stock; Gilman Farley, hay and potatoes; Samuel Boyce, stock and vegetables; Rev. Joseph Hayes, potatoes and grapes; Joseph Dickey,