148 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



repetition of the same process of ploughing and stocking down. 

 But if the ground is dry, and suitable for small grain, I stock 

 down with wheat, rye or barley ; but seldom with oats, prefer- 

 ring to turn in the stubble after the oats have been taken oif, 

 and then sowing about the middle of August. My money 

 expenditure for hired labor, does not exceed |200 per annum. 

 I submit, herewith, a record of the products, for the current 

 year, of the farm which I offer for premium, said farm contain- 

 ing about one hundred and fifty acres. 



105 tons hay, from 70 acres, at $15 per ton, . 

 300 bushels corn, from 10 acres, $1 per bushel, . 

 200 " oats, from 10 acres, 50c. per bushel, . 



48 " rye, from 4 acres, |1 per bushel, 

 100 " buckwheat, from 5 acres, 50c. per bu., 



50 " potatoes, from 1 acre, 50c. per bush., 

 Beef sold for cash, ...... 



Veal " " 



Pork " " 



Wool from 38 sheep, ...... 



40 lambs at $4 per head, ..... 



Agawam, October, 1856. 



$2,553 00 



Dr. Lawson Long's farm was visited on the 6th of June, and 

 again on the 14th of October. At each visit the directors were 

 much pleased with his neat and systematic mode of cultivation. 

 The grass upon the pastures, especially, appeared much more 

 vigorous and flourishing than upon those immediately adjoin- 

 ing. This difference we believe to be owing mainly to the dress- 

 ing of which he speaks in his statement. 



We recommend an improvement, with reference to increas- 

 ing the value and amount of manure. His cows are kept, day 

 and night, upon the pasture, — and most farmers pursue a 

 course no better, — or else allowed to remain at night in the 

 barnyard, where the droppings are dried by the sun, and washed 

 by the rains, until little of value remains. But let the cows, 

 and such other stock as is brought near the barn, be stabled 

 during the night, and some means devised by which the manure 

 — both solid and liquid — may be preserved and composted, for 



