32 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



150 loads of manure, . . . . $150 00 



Interest on 54 acres, worth $5,400, . 324 00 



Interest on 21 do. worth $1,050, . . 63 00 



Town and county taxes, . . . . 30 00 



$7G0 25 



Net profit, . . . $1,1G5 25 



Hadley, Not. 25, 1853. 



HAMPDEN. 



The committee on farms respectfully submit their report 

 upon the duties referred to them, viz. : the examination of such 

 entire farms as might be entered, as competing for the premiums 

 offered. The object of these premiums is one of the most im- 

 portant in its results that can arrest the attention of the farmer. 

 It is — as the terms of this society declare in the offer — to 

 ascertain from reliable data^ " the most valuable and economical 

 improvements in the cultivation and management of an entire 

 farm, with all its appendages." This subject, in many of our 

 sister societies, is made more deeply interesting in its details 

 than most others pertaining to their transactions. They pre- 

 sent the total inventory of the farm in all its appendages, and 

 show to the farmer, and (through the press) to the world, the 

 skill and enterprise of its owner. It is indeed a mirror, reflect- 

 ing the lights and shades of a farmer's life ; it details his opera- 

 tions and his success, as a guide for others ; and no individual 

 engaged in ao-ricultural pursuits should permit the year to close 

 until he has made this inventory of his affairs for his own use 

 at least. Having the Transactions of the Worcester "West 

 Society now open before us, we look upon the report of two 

 farms in the town of Barre, perfected in all their details, and 

 the balance sheet exhibits more distinctly than argument, the 

 value of the record. We would give an abstract from this 

 report, with the pleasing hope that it would stimulate many in 

 this county to favor us with their statements in future, but we 

 will not disturb the unity of the whole, for a part ; the whole 

 is most earnestly recommended to the farmers of Hampden, as 

 a model. And let it be ours to learn something from every 



