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"Wear of same, ....... 



Interest on value of 32 cows, at -$40. 00 each. 

 Interest on value of 5 horses, at -$150.00 each, . 

 Interest on value of one pair of oxen. 



Total, $5,510 00 



We think we can form a better estimate of the real income of 

 the farm if we suppose it continued through the year as a milk 

 farm. In that case we deduct the hay and roots from the 

 income, and add the sale of the milk at the rate of the other 

 seven months. Taking these figures as our data, we find the 

 sales of farm to be . . . . . . $11,649 49 



And the expenses to be, . . . . . 5,510 00 



$6,139 49 

 Leaving six thousand dollars for the services and support of Mr. 

 Merrill and his family. 



Statement of Samuel A. Merrill. 



I offer for premium the farm known as the Derby Farm, in 

 Salem, carried on by me during the past eleven years. 



This farm is situated in that part of the city known as South 

 Salem, and consists of one hundred and seventy-five acres, of 

 which ninety acres are in pasture, twenty acres in salt marsh, 

 forty-five acres in English grass, and twenty acres in tillage. 

 The English grass land has been laid down from one to ten 

 years. The pasture has been in its present condition during the 

 whole time I have occupied. 



When I commenced on the farm, there were about ten acres 

 in tillage. No part of it, however, had been used in the culti- 

 vation of onions, and was not put to this use to any considerable 

 extent until I had been on the farm s(5veral years. The present 

 year I have cultivated the tillage land about as follows : 



Onions, 

 Potatoes, 

 Cabbages, 

 Tomatoes, 

 Sweet Corn, . 

 Beets, . 



6 acres. 

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