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covered with salt works. Produce of 8 acres under cultivation in 

 1845: Corn, 90 bushels ; rye, 85 ; oats, 100 ; potatoes, 150; 

 besides beets and other roots. The remaining 12 acres produced 

 12 tons of English hay; one acre of which yielded 4 tons and 166 

 lbs. Pastured 15 head of cattle and 2 horses. Has made this 

 year 418 loads of manure, by composting loam, muscles, mud, rock 

 weed, peat, sea weed, and mixing therewith one cask of lime. 



Statistics of the Condition and Products of certain branches of 

 Industry, for the year ending April 1, 1845. 



Massachusetts has a territory of 7,500 square miles, which is 

 divided into 309 towns. Returns of the products of the various 

 kinds of industry were received into the Secretary's office on or 

 by the first day of October, for this year. These returns seem to 

 be as complete as it was possible to be procured under existing 

 circumstances. The errors which probably exist in the tables are 

 probably not very important. They represent a less amount of 

 capital and a product less than is realized by the owners, arising 

 from a mistaken notion that the intentions of the government in 

 procuring the returns were to form a basis for taxation. 



The population of the Commonwealth is 737,700; that of Bos- 

 ton, the capital, 93,383. There are are 14 towns whose popula- 

 tion is about 5000; 4 of about 10,000; 1 of 15,000 (Salem); 1 

 of 20,000 (LowelJ). Most of the population reside in country 

 towns and villages, whose population is above 1000, and less than 

 4000. 



Of the 737,700 people in Massachusetts, it appears that 152,- 

 766 are employed in some mechanical industrial pursuit. This 

 number is set down as hands employed, which in some cases 

 would have been returned as operatives. The capital invested in 

 these pursuits is $59,145,767; whose value in the returns is stated 

 at $114,478,443. 



