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The amount of labor expended on the whole has amounted to 

 seventy-nine dollars. 



Potatoes. — This crop has been raised among apple-trees, and 

 felt the drought rather more on this account. For the extent of 

 land cultivated, the crop has been fg,ir. The kinds planted were 

 the Dykerman, Garnet Chili, New York Peach Bloom, and New 

 York White Peach Bloom. The Dykerman were early, and some 

 sold at one dollar and seventy-five cents per bushel. 



Turnips. — This crop has been good ; the yield two hundred 

 bushels;, the cost of crop is about eleven and a quarter cents 

 per bushel. 



Hay has come in about the same as last year. The fresh hay 

 was taken on shares. On account of so much land being 

 devoted to young orchards, and consequently kept in cultiva- 

 tion or ploughed once or twice in the season, the hay crop is 

 smaller than it otherwise would have been. 



Rye has yielded fifty bushels of grain, and three tons of 

 straw. This crop has cost sixty cents per bushel, the straw 

 being bonus. 



Hay Hall, Lakeville, Dec. 1, 1864. 



MANURES. 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



Report of the Committee. 



To the Trustees of the Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Agriculture : 



The reports of the competitors for the premiums offered for 

 the tilling and manuring land for the three years of 1862,-'3, 

 and '4, have been examined and reduced to tabular statements, 

 wliich form part of our report. The directions for the cultiva- 

 tion of the lands appear to have been substantially followed. 



Mr. Weld reports his estimate of the product per acre of each 

 of his lots for the three years. 



Mr. Perkins reports on a sixth lot dressed by drilling in 

 twenty-four and a half pounds of Coe's super-phosphate of lime. 



