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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



wall, and have set out some fruit trees for a nurserv. I have 

 endeavored to save all the animal and vegetable materials for 

 manure, which could l)e found on the farm, and have used no 

 other manure except 400 pounds of plaster. The assessors' val- 

 uation of my farm is $2,100. 



Products of the farm : — 



20 tons of hay, at 812, . 

 50 bushels of oats, at 50 cents, 

 rye, at $1, 



potatoes, at 25 cents, 

 corn, at 00 cents, 

 carrots, at 25 cents, 

 turnips, at 20 cents, 

 1 ton of rye straw, 

 2|- tons of oats, at $Q, 

 8 tons corn fodder. 



Green corn fodder. 

 5 loads of 25umpkins, 

 Pasturing, 

 Garden vegetables. 

 Apples, 

 3 bushels of white bear 



Expenses : — 

 My own and hired labor, . 

 Interest on valuation, 



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OL't-'U.* • • • • 



Surplus profits, . 

 Pelham, Juue 1, 1856. 



8500 80 



309 62 



^191 80 



Huntington. 



Statefnent of Theophilus P. 



My farm in Hadley, near the Connecticut River, contains 

 twenty-six acres, iinder constant culture : twelve acres of light, 

 sandy soil, that have been cropped about one year in four, and 



