MIDDLESEX SOCIETY. 145 



Hay, - - - 



Cranberries, 

 Pork, - 

 Veal, - 

 Turnip seed, 

 Oats, - - - 

 Poultry and Eggs, 

 Straw, 

 Turnips, 



$840 00 



The whole amount paid for labor the past year has not ex- 

 ceeded twenty-five dollars more than I have received for my- 

 self and team, exclusive of teaming wood in the winter, which 

 has averaged about one hundred and twenty dollars per year. 



Concord, Sept. 1. 



From these statements, as well as from verbal ones made to 

 the committee, it appears evident to them that farming should 

 no longer be considered an miprofitable calling. No doubt 

 some of the farms in the county yield less than the expense of 

 cultivation ; and perhaps are running their owners into debt. 

 But the committee have evidence, which appears to them con- 

 clusive, that intelligence, skill and industry, will overcome 

 many, if not all the disadvantages of soil and situation ; and 

 these are all that the farmers have to complain of; for all 

 they raise beyond a sufficiency for the supply of their own 

 wants, bears remunerating and often high prices. It is not be- 

 lieved that any farmer in Middlesex county will improve his 

 condition by emigrating to California. Although the granite 

 hills present a somewhat forbidding aspect, they are not without 

 their value, while the rich bottoms that lie between them, and 

 the luxuriant banks of the Charles and the Merrimack, the Con- 

 cord and Nashua rivers, are incomparably more estimable than 

 the whole valley of the Sacramento. 

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