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Since the sixth of April, I have hauled ninety loads of small stones, 

 and blasted rocks four dajs. I have cut twenty-five tons of English 

 hay, four or five tons of meadow hay, and two tons of rowen. 



Expense of labor : One man, 3 months, at S12 50, $37 50 



One man, 14 days, at 75 cents, 10 50 



One man, 10 days, at 80 cents, 8 00 



One man, 5 days, at $1, 5 00 



One boy, 14 days, 3 50 



S64 50 

 I have sold two loads of hay, one at 12, and the other 



at $15 per ton, amounting to 88 16 



Summer apples, peaches and vegetebles, 12 00 



$50 00 

 I have yet to sell, several .tons of hay, and twenty barrels of ap- 

 ples, besides beans and garden vegetables. 



A more full account of the produce of the farm can be given, 

 when the corn and potatoes are harvested.^ 



Respectfully yours, 



JAMES HOLT. 



Andover, October 1st, 1846. 



ON STEERS. 



The Committee to examine and award the premiums on Steers, 

 ask leave to Report : 



That but one pair of steers was offered for premium ; a pair of the 

 Durham breed, two years old, by Benjamin Poore, from the Indian 

 Hill Farm, West Newbury. They were large, well-formed, fine 



* By letter of November aist, 1346, from Mr. Holt, we learn that he raised eighty-three 

 bushels of ears of corn from one acre, and one hundred and fifty bushels of potatoes on 

 his farm, forty bushels of French turnips, thirty bushels of round turnips, twenty-seven 

 bushels of sugar beets, ten bushels of onions, and a supply of garden vegetables for 

 family use. 



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