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Paid another in haying, . - _ ^22 00 



20 cords wood burnt, - - - - 90 00 



314 00 



Leaving a balance of - $717 00 



Wayland, Sept., 1851. 



Charles Gerry^s Statement. 



I began five years ago on my farm, which contains one hun- 

 dred and twenty acres, about twenty of which were English 

 mowing, and yielded at that time twenty-five tons of hay. I 

 now have twenty-six acres of English mowing, which produces 

 fifty tons of English hay. I usually cut thirty tons of meadow 

 hay on twenty-five acres of land. I have built, the last three 

 years, one hundred and seventy rods of wall, and blasted rock 

 for as many rods more. I usually winter twenty-five head of 

 cattle, and keep in the summer season two oxen, two horses 

 and seven cows. 



From the fourth day of July last year to the first of 

 May this year, I lost fifteen head of cattle, all of which died 

 within one or two hours after being taken sick. The first 

 appearance of the disease was dulness, then tremor or trem- 

 bling, and drying up of the milk all at once. We opened one 

 of the cows. The intestines were bright ; the lights and liver 

 appeared perfect ; the kidney looked of a jelly substance ; the 

 melt was a clod of blood. I know of no cause of the disease, 

 nor name for it. My cattle that were sick, all died, two oxen, 

 five cows, six steers and two heifers two years old. 



The income from what I sold last year, was 



20 tons English hay, ... - $300 00 



13 •' meadow hay, - - - - 115 00 



150 bushels potatoes, ... - 150 00 



150 " oats, 75 00 



600 cwt. pork, 42 00 



Pigs sold, 30 00 



Poultry, 35 00 



