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market value at the time. The receipts amounted to $178.50, 

 with 115 left at the end of the year. I charged them with 120 

 bushels of corn, at CO cents, making $75, thereby leaving a olear 

 balance in their favor of $103.50. What stock does a farmer 

 keep as prulitable fur the investment ? 



Very resp<;ctfully yours, 



HERMAN B. CROPS EY. 



B. P. Johnson, Esq., Sec'y. 



ExTllACT FROM THE AuDRESS OF HoN. OeADIAII BoWNE. 



It would ill become me at this time to attempt an instructive 

 homily in the science of agriculture. Modern progression has 

 not yet reversed tlie position of master and pupil. I am here but 

 to learn, and to note what I have learned, to be instructed and 

 no\ to -instruct. In this view of the case, I will crave the indul- 

 gence of the intelligent farmers who surround me, in that I shall 

 take but a passing notice of the advance of practical agriculture, 

 and proceed at once to deduce therefrom some of the lessons which 

 these things teach. 



Here, however, let us first review the statistics of the county 

 as shown in the last census. In this document we find our area 

 estimated at 15, 171 J acres of land in farms, exclusive of that ap- 

 propriated to towns and villas, and valued at |1, 020,300, or about 

 one hundred dollars per acre — an estimate generally considered 

 to ne far less than the absolute value. Of tliis number of acres, 

 4,803 are reported as unimproved. If, as I presume is the case, 

 our many acres of noble woodland are included in this category, 

 I trust the day is far of!' when we shall be returned as having 

 much additional improved land — a term perhaps mucli better 

 rendered unadorned. 



But to return to figures, which, however dry, may perchance 

 prove more reliable tlian these pleasant glimpses down the vista 

 of the future. We find our annual product of hay to be 5,042 

 tons; of wlieat, 15,388 bushels ; of rye, corn, and oats, about 

 74,000 bushels; of potatoes, 30,000 bushels; of barley and buck- 



