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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



America, and with a constantly growing manufacturing popu- 

 lation of its own, can only muster about 6,000 sheep — less than 

 there are on some single estates in Great Britain, against 

 almost a quarter of a million — forty times as many, in the 

 county of Ayr.* 



Now, gentlemen, I have already adverted to the fact that 

 experience in any particular region, ends by settling down 

 more or less definitively upon some particular branch of farm- 

 ing ; and so much weight, I am willing to admit, should be 

 given to practical conclusions thus arrived at, as to render it 

 somewhat hazardous to advocate the adoption of fundamental 

 changes except for the strongest and clearest reasons. And 

 what I would suggest here, is rather an effort to augment the 

 stock of the farm, to reach, a little more nearly the standard in 



* Agricultural Statistics of the Counties of Worcester in Massachusetts, and 

 Ayr in Scotland, for the year 1855, unless otherwise specified. 



Worcester 

 County. 



Ayrshire. 



Total area in acres, 



Population, (Worcester County, 1860, Ayrshire, 1851,) 



Number of Farms, . . . 



Area " Improved Land," acres, 



Area " Under Rotation of Crops," acres, 



Crops produced — Wheat, bushels, . . . . 



" acres, . 



Rye, bushels, 



" acres, 



Barley, bushels, 



" acres, 



Oats, bushels, 



" acres, 



Indian Corn, hushels, 



" " acres, 



Total grain, bushels, 



Total area Grain crops, acres, 



Other Tillage crops. Potatoes, 



Turnips, 



Other Koots, * . 



Beans, 



Other crops, 



Total area Roots &c., acres, 



Area in Hay, 



Fallow, . " 



Area under Rotation, Aj-rshire and corresponding area in Wor- 

 cester County, 



Live Stock — Horses, 



Milch Cows, 



Other Cattle, 



Calves, 



Total' Cattle, 



Sheep and Lambs, 



Swine, 



706,000 

 15D,659 



7,002 

 483,472 



46,101 



650 



51,571 



3,967 



41,137 



1,890 



283,556 



9,930 



418,918 



16,185 



841,283 



32,622 



9,439 



172 



658 



1,481 



11,750 



117,117 



161,489 

 13,484 

 33,917 

 18,561 



9,443 

 61,921 



6,212 

 11,023 



665,000 



189,858 



3,329 



258,154 



430,421 



12,847 



12,127 



362 



33,221 



971 



2,475,186 



61,648 



2,950,955 



75,828 



8,167 



16,480 



1,136 



3,485 



898 



30,166 



151,216 



944 



258,154 

 9,702 

 39,286 

 28,809 

 15,913 

 84,008 



245,373 

 12,483 



