74 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



FARMS. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



We earnestly invite the attention of every farmer to the 

 following account, kept in a regular business-like way. If 

 every one would adopt and carry out this plan, how many 

 would abandon some modes of cultivation, or some crops, 

 which have been supposed to be profitable, but which the 

 account might prove to have been far otherwise. Impressions 

 are often erroneous, facts and figures are wanted to confirm or 

 confute them. Open an account with every field and crop, 

 noting down, in a book to be kept, every item of expenditure, 

 whether of labor, manure, seed, or any thing else, depth of 

 ploughing, time of planting, <fcc, and credit the crop, and see 

 on which side lies the balance. A regular system of putting 

 down, every evening, an account of the work of the day, takes 

 but little time, and soon becomes a habit, and then is attended 

 to as a matter of course ; and at the end of a year, or a series 

 of years, you have a mass of facts by which you may profit, 

 and of which you may be proud. Let no sleep visit your eyes 

 any evening until the account is fair in the book. 



We would congratulate our brother farmers upon the improve- 

 ments which have been made, and which are constantly being 

 made in agricultural affairs, particularly in the implements at 

 our command, and in saving and using manures. No man 

 now can pretend to good management without a barn cellar 

 for the saving of solids and liquids, without exposure to wind 

 and rain, which would dissipate by evaporation and leaching 

 the best part of the fertilizing properties of the manure. The 

 importance of using to the best advantage every waste article 

 which can be decomposed in the compost heap, is becoming 

 more and more apparent. If more Yankee shrewdness were 

 brought to bear upon this point, there would be less disappoint- 

 ment in regard to crops. Then in using manures, are they not 



