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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



As to the farm buildings I am not aware that there is any- 

 thing pecuhar about them worthy of notice, except that the cow 

 stanchions are in a long, low-roofed L, running out from the 

 barn. This I regard as a very good feature, as the hay, which 

 is wholly kept in the main body of the barn, is by this means 

 preserved from the deterioration, which the steam and heat of 

 the cows cause. 



The products of the farm for the past season, from April 1 to 

 Nov. 1, 1864, are as follow: 



Milk, 25,714 quarts, sold in the city at an average of 



7 cents per quart. 

 Cabbages and cabbage plants, sold as per sales-book. 

 Onions, 2,500 bushels, at 11.75 per bushel, . 

 Carrots, 20 tons, at $15 per ton, . 

 Mangel wurzel, 10 tons, .... 

 Flat turnips, 500 bushels, at 25 cents per bushel, 

 Ruta-bagas, 200 bushels, at 60 " " " 

 Early potatoes, tomatoes, and other garden sauce. 

 Squashes, ..... 

 English hay, 80 tons, at $30 per ton, 

 Salt hay, 20 tons, at $17 per ton 

 Barley, 30 bushels. 

 Wheat, 25 bushels. 

 Rye, 20 bushels. 

 Wheat straw, 2 tons. 

 Barley straw, 2 tons, 

 Apples 



, 15 barrels, 



Sales of pork per year have been from seven to eight hun- 

 dred pounds. 



For seven months of the year I keep seven men and two 

 boys ; for the rest of the year, three men ; and during the 

 season for weeding onions, three extra boys. Besides this, one 

 man is constantly employed on the milk route. 



The land is exceedingly well adapted to the raising of hay 

 and vegetables. The soil is somewhat varied in different local- 

 ities, — in some places a dark loam upon a clayey bottom ; in 

 others, a light, warm, friable soil. It is also very well situated as 

 to the influences of the sun and moisture, needing no draining, 

 and still capable of resisting droughts. 



