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22. Is it supposed that pork can be raised with profit in 

 your town ? 



23. What is the amount of tobacco raised in your town ? 



24. What quantity of cranberries is annually gathered ? 



25. What attention is given to the cultivation of cranberries, 

 and what is the estimated yield per acre of the cultivated and 

 imcultivated ? 



26. What quantity of broom corn is raised ? 



27. What attention is given to the cultivation of fruit, and 

 with what result on the increased profits of the farm ? 



28. The estimated proportion of native and foreign laborers 

 employed on your farms, and what is the average pay to each 

 class per month ? 



Will you oblige me by answering as fully as possible before 

 the first of November ? 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 



Charles L. Flint, 

 Secretary of the Board of Agriculture. 



It is gratifying to say, that the request for information from 

 the various towns, has been very generally complied with ; and 

 the answers received from different parts of the State have 

 been of essential service to me. 



The great staple products of the State are already well 

 known. The first to which attention is called, is, of course, 

 the noblest of them all — Indian corn. In the numerous letters 

 received in answer to the above circular, there is a singular 

 coincidence of opinion, that farmers in the different sections of 

 the State now cultivate less land, but do it better than formerly, 

 under the impression that good crops from small pieces well 

 tilled, are more profitable than the same crops would be from 

 larger surfaces imperfectly cultivated. This opinion shows, at 

 least, an encouraging change in public sentiment, and might, 

 perhaps, be strikingly corroborated by statistics obtained both 

 officially and by private inquiry. 



Indian Corn. 

 It appears from the returns of 1840, that there were 1,775,- 

 074 bushels of Indian corn raised that year in the State ; while 



