MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE 



Estimated profit. 



$872 59 



My own and family expenses should be deducted from the 

 final balance. The price credited to the several articles is sup- 

 posed to be the market price, whether that market is at home 

 or in Boston, 



26, Have never kept sheep, 



27. My experiments have usually been in the amount of 

 manure a))plied ; the result, the more manure the better the 

 crop. The best articles, rightly put up, find the earliest 

 market, and command the highest price. 



Statement of Joseph A. Ilarwood. 



1, My farm consists of. 150 acres; have owned it twelve 

 years ; am the fifth generation of the family who have owned it. 



2. At the time it came into my possession, it produced twenty- 

 five tons of hay, seventj-Iive barrels of apples, and wintered 



