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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Products : — 

 Corn, 750 bushels, at 90 cents, 

 Ilay, 55 tons, at $10, 

 Pork sold, .... 

 Corn-fodder, 35 tons, at $5, . 

 Earley, 100 bushels, at 85 cents, 

 Cash received for labor, 

 Wheat, 40 bushels, at $1.50, . 

 Potatoes, 75 bushels, at 50 cents, 

 Corn-fodder sold, 21 tons, at $15, 

 Straw, 4 tons, at $G, 



Expenses : — 

 Labor, ..... 

 Corn, 200 bushels, at 87|- cents, . 

 Oats, 100 do. at 50 cents, 

 Ashes, 300 do. at 14 cents. 

 Plaster, 2 'tons, at $9, . 

 Clover seed, 60 lbs. at 121 cents, 

 Corn-fodder, 5 tons, at $5, . 

 Straw, 2 tons, at $7, 

 Interest on land, valued $3,200, 

 Taxes, 



L,965 25 



848 50 



Net profit, . 



Deekfield, November, 1853. 



L,116 75 



Statement of Austin Smith 6^ Sons. 



The farm, wliich we enter for premium, contains seventy-three 

 acres, situated in Sunderland. It has been our aim to increase, 

 economically, the productiveness of the whole farm, and to 

 raise useful, and remunerating crops. This, we have endeavored 

 to do, by the making-, saving, and proper application of manures, 

 'and l)y thorough cultivation of the soil. 



It is our practice in raising Indian corn, to plough, or har- 

 row in manure, at the rate of twelve or fifteen loads to the 



