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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



mately in bushels, instead of in bushels antl pecks and fractions 



of pecks : — 



Yield of Wheat per Acre. 



YEAKS. 



Bashels. 



1843-4, 



1844-5, 



1845-6, 



1846-7, 



1847-8, 



1848-9, 



1849-50, 



1850-1, 



1851-2, 



1852-3, 



19| 

 32| 

 23| 

 291 

 29| 

 33i 

 33f 

 36| 

 28| 

 24i 



YEARS. 



1853-4, 



1854-5, 



1855-6, 



1856-7, 



1857-8, 



1858-9, 



1859-60, 



1860-1, 



1861-2, 



1862-3, 



Bushels. 



49^ 

 33i 

 38+ 

 48| 

 41f 

 34| 

 32^ 

 36i 

 364- 

 564 



Average for first 10 years, 29.2 bushels ; for second 10 years, 40.8 bushels. 

 Average for 20 years, 35 bushels. 



Does this table seem to indicate that chemical farming 

 exhausts the soil? However, we will give another instance 

 of a gentleman in England, who purchased rather a poor farm 

 in 1861, and who, since that date, has sold off his standing 

 crops at auction, and purchased chemical manure. The gen- 

 tleman is Mr. Front, and his fiirm is Blount's Farm, 450 

 acres, in Sawbridge worth, Herts ; and a full report thereon 

 may be found in the last report of the Journal of the Royal 

 Agricultural Society of England. [1875, xi. p. 38.] 



The following table will explain itself: — 



KIND OF MANUKE USED. 



Value of Manure 

 Applied to Crops. 



Reduced to 

 Dollars. 



Total of Crops 

 Sold. 



Reduced to 

 Dolliirs. 



1861,^ 



1862, I 



1863, \ 



1864, I 

 1865,J 

 1866, 

 1867, . 

 1868, . 

 1869, . 

 1870, . 

 1871, . 

 1872, . 

 1873, . 

 1874, . 

 1875,* 



Chemical 



and 



London duns'. 



Chemical, 



£1,640 

 2,477 

 2,369 

 2,465 

 3,330 

 2,423 

 4,726 

 3,742 

 5,232 

 4,625 

 4,743 

 4,570 

 4,628 

 4,630 



O.S. 















5 















7 



14 

 11 



4 





 19 



Od 















9 



9 



8 







4 

 11 

 10 

 10 







6 



$8,200 

 12,385 

 11,845 

 12,325 

 16,650 

 12,115 

 23,630 

 18,710 

 26,160 

 23,125 

 23,715 

 22,850 

 23,140 

 23,150 



Value not yet known. 



