28 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



FARMS. 



WORCESTER WEST. 



[Statement of Jolin T. Ellswortli.] 



The farm which I enter for the society's premium is in 

 Barre, and known as the Lee Farm, from the fact of its hav- 

 ing been in the possession of the Lee family from the time 

 of its first settlement until I became the owner of it, twenty 

 years ago. It contains a hundred and forty-two acres of 

 land, with ample and convenient buildings; and is subdi- 

 vided as follows, — forty acres of improved land (twelve acres 

 of which was ploughed and cultivated this year), seventy- 

 five acres of pasture, and twenty-seven acres of wood and 

 timber. 



My crops the present year are as follows, — three hundred 

 and seventy bushels of corn, forty-four bushels of oats, a 

 hundred and forty bushels of potatoes, three hundred and 

 twenty-five bushels of mangolds, a hundred and thirty-five 

 bushels of large turnips, six hundred bushels of flat turnips, 

 two hundred heads of cabbages, twenty-five cartloads of 

 pumpkins, twenty barrels of apples, and forty-three hun- 

 dred pounds of pork. I have had the whey from twenty 

 cows' milk besides my own for summer feed for my hogs. 

 My stock is mostly of high grade Shorthorns of my own 

 raising, and consists of a pair of oxen, a bull, twenty-three 

 cows, twelve heifers, six calves, one sheep, three horses, a 

 breeding-mare, two colts, twelve hogs, and forty-one pigs. I 

 cut about sixty tons of hay, a ton of green rye, two tons of 

 Hungarian grass, and three tons of rowen. My hay-crop is 

 not an average yield, on account of drought of previous 

 years. 



From April 1 to Oct. 1 the yield of milk from twenty- 

 three cows was 91,870 pounds, from which was made 2,297 



