124 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



PROFITS. 



122 bushels of potatoes at 50 cents per bushel, . -161 00 



Balance in favor of crop, . . . fl4 75 



EXPENSE OF LAYING DOWN AN ACRE THAT WAS PLANTED LAST YEAR. 



Ploughing, sowing and harrowing, .... 



3 bushels of oats, 



Grass seed, ........ 



Harvesting and threshing, ..... 



54 bushels of oats, at 65 cents per bushel, |35 10 

 30 hundred of straw, . . . . 15 00 



Balance in favor of crop, 



Balance first crop, .... 



Balance in favor of both crops, . . . $46 60 



The above is as near correct as I can make it. 

 Wrentham, November 30, 18G2. 



MANURES. 



ESSEX. 



Report of the Committee. 



The committee, in making tlicir report, would again express 

 their great obligations to Richard S. Rogers, for giving the 

 results of another year's experience with the different fertilizers 

 used by him for top-dressing grass land. His statement will be 

 found to confirm fully the testimony of his experiments of the 

 two preceding years in favor of green cow manure. Our 

 farmers may be slow to use such manure for this purpose, 

 chiefly because the practice is so different from that whicli they 

 have heretofore followed. It may seem to them almost like a 



