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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



All the crops are credited at market value, and some have 

 been sold at prices above this, which will make up any loss that 

 may occur hereafter. Below is a summary of the whole : — 



35 loads manure, on two acres grass land, at 81, 



Whole cost of mowing and getting in hay, 



Cost of crop on first-named 1-| acres, 



Cost of crop on next, or 50 bushels corn, 



Cost of crop of the piece of turnips, 



Repairing fences, ditching, setting trees, &c, 



Cost of carriages and harness work, 



Cost of blacksmith's work, 837 ; tools, 814, 



110 bushels roots, at market value, 



38,855 lbs. hay, bought and used from crops, 



Grain of all sorts through the year, 



One bull calf, bought at 8 days' old, 



Man's labor through the year, in all departments, 



Total, 



Cb. 



15 tons hay, worth, when put into the barn, 817, 



2 tons rough hay for bedding, &c, 810, 

 Value of crop on first-named piece, 

 Value of corn, &c, ..... 

 Value of crop of turnips, <fcc, 

 900 lbs. butter, averaging over, but estimated 50c. 

 Amount of milk sold through the year, . 

 542 lbs. pork, killed and mostly sold at 15c, . 

 Pigs sold, 8229.20, and six now on hand, 842, 

 Chickens and eggs through the year, 

 Two calves, sold young, for market, 

 One bull calf, sold at 8 days' old, . 

 Use of stallion and other animals, . 

 Use of horse and man carting stone and lumber 



that cannot come into farm accounts, . 

 Two bull calves on hand, 9 months' old, one 840 



and the other 850, ..... 

 One heifer calf, on hand, 10 months' old, 

 250 loads manure on hand, .... 



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