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trees costing $75, and in 1865 built a barn at a cost of about 

 $3,000, in which the saving of manure alone has paid the 

 interest of it since it was built. In 1860, all I sold and har- 

 Ycsted as shown by the farm account taken January 1st, 1861, 

 amounted to $873.31, and expenses aside from building, were 

 $464.25. My crops were mostly corn, potatoes and grain. 

 The same year I built a house at a cost of $550, and a granary 

 which cost $150. In 1861, 1 sold from the farm the amount of 

 $652.33, and my expenses were $688.33. In 1862, 1 sold from 

 the farm the amount of $693.67, and my expenses were 

 $834.16. During this year I built over most of my line walls, 

 put in under-drains, cut bushes, &c. In 1863, 1 sold $1,115.80, 

 and my expenses were $1,083.80. In 1864, 1 sold $1,945.50, 

 and my expenses were $1,371. In 1865, 1 sold $2,274.16, and 

 my expenses were $1,763. This year I built my barn, and we 

 had considerable extra work in digging cellar, hauling stone, 

 lumber, &c., besides working on the farm. In 1866, I sold 

 from the farm $2,595.83, and expenses were $1,647.70. This 

 year, 1867, my crops are not as good as in years previous, but 

 prices have been better, so that my sales will not be far from 

 what they were last year. What the farm is worth now, I 

 could not exactly tell, and as it is not for ^ale, I do not wish to 

 set a price upon it, but others call it worth all the way from 

 $5,000 to $8,000. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



There was but one farm entered for our inspection, and that 

 was by Cyrus Kilburn, of Lunenburg. On the 26th of June 

 the Committee visited Mr. Kilburn's farm, and found him 

 engaged in his hay field, as he thinks his earliest cut hay is the 

 most valuable for making milk. His farm contains 122 acres, 

 about twenty of which is woodland. His crops were looking 

 well, and had been well tended. One acre of winter wheat upon 

 land broken up the previous August, and upon which he spread 

 sixteen loads compost manure and one hundred and fifty pounds 

 phosphate, gave promise of a large yield. He has been very 

 successful in raising winter wheat, and thinks it worth ten per 

 cent, more than spring wheat. For corn he spreads his manure 



