6. MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



gests a tlicmc of great practical importance. As the progress 

 of agricultural science and art is promoted among us, these 

 combinations will become more and more common. Taste, 

 insinuating itself into the operations of the farm, will often 

 avail itself of some accidental feature of a field, or some 

 chance location of trees, or shrubs, or water, to make them 

 subservient to the general beauty of the landscape. 



Charles Babbidge, Chairman. 



In order to obtain as full information as possible from those 

 applying for premiums on farms, the committee propounded the 

 following questions : — 



Replies of Daniel Tiittle, of Acton. 



1. Of how many acres did your farm consist in 1848 ? 

 A. Ninety-five acres. 



2. What was the condition of the land at that time, in a good 

 state of cultivation, or otherwise ? 



A. Mostly bound out and up to brush. 



3. What proportion of it was in tillage, pasture, and wood ? 

 A. Tillage, thirty acres ; pasture, fifty ; wood, fifteen acres. 



4. What amount of hay cut in 1848 and in 1852 ? 

 ,1. Twenty tons in 1852; twenty-six tons in 1853. 



5. What grain do you raise ? 

 A. Corn and oats. 



G. Y^hat roots do you raise, and what value do you place 

 upon tliem as food for stock ? 



A. Flat turnips and carrots, and I believe them profitable as 

 feed for stock. 



7. At what time do you seed down grass laud, spring or fall, 

 and at about what date ; kind and quantity of seed, and with 

 what grain best ? 



A. In the spring, eight quarts herds-grass, half bushel redtop 

 and eight pounds clover to the acre. 



8. At what time do you apply top-dressing to grass laud, and 

 why at that particular time ? 



A. In October. 



