18 BOARD , OF AGRICULTURE. 



1. What are the chief products of your town? 



2. The estimated number of acres devoted to each ? 



3. The average yield per acre of grain and Indian corn ? 



4. What attention is paid to raising field crops of beets, 

 carrots, ruta-bagas, &c., and what is the average yield per 

 acre, of each ? 



5. What is the average yield per acre of English hay ? 



6. The increase per acre, within the last ten or fifteen years, 

 arising from improved cultivation, or from reclaiming meadow 

 and waste lands ? 



7. The estimated number of acres of reclaimed land ? 



8. Is there an increasing or decreasing number of acres in 



tillage ? 



9. Is there an increasing or decreasing number of acres in 



pasturage ? 



10. Is the value of farm land increasing or decreasing ? 



11. What is the estimated per cent., realized on the value of 

 farms, and the capital invested in the management of the same ? 



~ 12. The estimated number of acres of woodland, and the 

 average value per acre ? 



13. The estimated rate of increase or decrease of wood- 

 land? 



14. What manures are chiefly used, and how applied ? What 

 attention is paid to composting, and what is believed to be the 

 most profitable mode of doing it ? 



15. What per cent, increase of manure might be made on 

 your farms, with reasonable care, and by what means ? 



16. What degree of attention is paid to the breeding of 

 stock ? 



17. What breed of milch cows and working oxen is most 



esteemed? 



18. What is the average quantity per day, of milk and of 

 butter from a single animal of each breed of cows ? 



19. What is the number of full-blooded animals of each 

 breed of horses, cows, sheep, swine, &c. ? 



20. What are the principal breeds of sheep, and what is 

 their average value per head ? 



21. What are the breeds of swine most esteemed, and the 

 comparative value of each ? 



