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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



1861. 

 1862. 

 1861. 

 1862. 

 1861. 

 1862. 



Profit on No. 1 above cost of manure, 118 97 



" No. 1 " 



" No. 2 " 



" No. 2 " 



" No. 3 " 



" No. 3 " 



1861. Loss " No. 4 " 



1862. Profit " No. 4 " 



32 55—151 52 



22 73 



32 24 —54 97 



13 76 



21 24 —35 00 



23 96 



19 50 —4 46* 



SYNOPSIS OF THE WEATHER. 



Statements of Aaron D. Weld. 



I submit my report for tbe year 1862, the first of this series. 



A level piece of land, containing one hundred square rods, 

 was selected for the purpose, and divided into five lots of twenty 

 square rods each. The soil is composed of black peat mud, has 

 been down to grass seven years, and was ploughed last fall. 



This spring it was ploughed and the manure applied according 

 to the requirements of the State Board of Agriculture, precisely 

 in the same manner and quantity as in my report on experi- 

 ments with manures, in 1861, to which reference is had on pages 

 148 and 149 of the Agriculture of Massachusetts for that year. 

 It may be proper to state that the cut-worm again attacked the 

 lots on which we were experimenting, which prevented a larger 

 quantity to estimate upon. 



