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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



350 loads of manure, at $1, 

 Improvement of farm, 



$350 

 100 



00 

 00 



$3,025 81 



Net profit, on seventy- three, acres, , 



Sunderland, October 4, 1853. 



1,788 65 

 1,237 16 



Statement of Samuel Poioers. 



My farm is in Hadley, and contains eighty-seven acres. Fift}'- 

 four acres lie almost in one body, within half a mile of my 

 dwelling. Twenty-one acres of pasture and twelve acres of 

 woodland, are near Fort River. 



I purchased, several years since, a number of acres of very 

 trifling value, so filled Avith water as to be unproductive. But, 

 by draining, ploughing and subduing, this land is now as beautiful 

 in appearance, and as productive, as any in this region. It has 



