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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Carting manure, ploughing, hoeing, &c., 

 8^ cords of manure, at $6, less one-third, 

 Harvesting and husking corn, . 



27 00 

 33 00 

 10 00 



$87 80 



Profit, $82 82 



from one acre and a quarter and eleven rods, or at the rate of 

 .80 per acre. 



I have estimated the value of the corn-fodder at $40.50, 

 from the fact that last year the fodder from a smaller piece of 

 ground, which was saved by salting down with five or six 

 hundred pounds of barley straw, kept my cow through the 

 winter without any grain in as good order as she could have 

 been kept on two tons of English hay. 



Milton, Nov. 9, 1855. 



PLYMOUTH. 



Statement of Artemas Hale. 



The acre of land upon which I have raised the Indian corn, 

 for which I made application for the society's premium, is of a 

 gravelly soil. It was laid down to grass about nine years ago, 

 and has been mown every year since, without any application 

 of manure until last year, and has produced a fair crop of hay. 



Last year about one-half of it was ploughed and planted to 

 corn, and with only a moderate portion of manure, yielded quite 

 a good crop. 



Before ploughing, this spring, I spread upon it forty-two horse 

 loads of manure, and after ploughing, thirteen loads more, mak- 

 ing in all fifty-five horse loads, equal to twenty-eight wagon 

 loads of forty cubic feet each. About on-e-half of the manure 

 was of poor quality, taken from the barnyard and composed of 

 refuse corn-fodder, poor hay, and the droppings of two cows? 

 mixed with soil carted into the yard the summer previous, and 

 from the bolcl stable. The residue was of very superior quality. 

 It was taken from the barn cellar, and had never been exposed 



