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manure, chiefly night-soil, which is delivered on the fields at 5 

 cents per cubic foot. 



12. West Cambridge. Charles Wellington. Acres 88 : till- 

 age 15 : Enghsh mowing 30 : salt marsh 3 : orcharding 30 : 

 wood 10. 



Stock. Horses 4 : oxen 6 : cows 2 : swine 20. 



Products. 



English hay, 



Salt, 



Potatoes, 



Beets, 



Turnips, 



Pork, 



Cider, 



Winter Apples, prime. 



Manure made, 

 " bought, 



The cost of cultivating an acre of potatoes is estimated at ^40 



" " " beets " 50 



The value of tillage and mowing land here is estimated at 150 



of pasture land at ..... 30 



of salt marsh at ..... 100 



The amount of manure usually applied to an acre is 4 cords. 

 The cost of labor, board included, is charged at $1000. About 

 25 acres of this farm was almost covered with large and small 

 stones; this land has been cultivated with great labor, and is 

 now in orcharding. Twenty acres were formerly low, wet peat 

 meadow, and bog ; now all in tillage and English mowing, and 

 yielding abundantly, 



Mr. Wellington raised the present year twenty tons of the 

 marrow squash, on about six acres of his orchard ground, al- 

 though most of the land was covered with apple-trees. 



Mr. Wellington remarks that fruit trees of all kinds require 

 cultivation, both by ploughing and manuring. About 2 cords 



