296 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



in October, 1,7G0 cheeses, weighing 131,379 pounds after being 

 sufficiently cured for market, and bringing an average of 

 $16.83i- per hundred, amounting to $22,118.70. Expense of 

 manufacturing, materials used, and interest on capital invested, 

 $3,185.59, or abOut two cents four and a half mills per pound, 

 leaving a net income to the farmers of $18,933.11, or $14.41-jlg- 

 per hundred. This includes no estimate for the whey, which is 

 probably worth, to feed to hogs, about three dollars per cow. 



Cheese factories, in New England, are of recent origin, but 

 enough arc in operation to show that this is the true way of 

 making cheese, and that there is a great economy of labor, 

 averaging not more than one person for the milk of one hundred 

 cows. We commend this mode of operation to the careful 

 attention of all interested in cheese-making. 



Personal experiments in farming have been called for. I can 

 give but few. I raised, the past season, on one hundred and 

 thirty-three rods of ground, twenty-four and one-half bushels 

 of wheat, which was considered worthy of a premium, as a field 

 crop. No manure was used specially for the wheat crop. The 

 land was well manured the previous year, all being spread on 

 and ploughed in, and cabbage and turnips grown upon it. I 

 find, so far as my own experience goes, that it is better for crops 

 to spread on the manure in the autumn, and plough in. One 

 advantage of this mode of operation is, that the land can be 

 worked earlier in the spring ; another is, as I have said, I think 

 it is better for the crops. New England is the great workshop 

 for the mechanic arts, and for manufacturing, and the attention 

 seems to be drawn to a great extent from her agricultural inter- 

 ests. "We often hear the complaint, by those not engaged in 

 producing what we all need, that the products of the farm are 

 so high in price that they can hardly obtain enough for a liveli- 

 hood, and that the farmers are reaping a rich harvest. One of 

 two things must be true, — either they do not believe it is so 

 remunerative, or they think they can obtain a livelihood in some 

 other way with less labor. Let not such complain of the high 

 price of provisions, but turn their steps in that direction. 



Agriculturists have been slow to avail themselves of all the 

 improvements in implements, and the use of machinery in culti- 

 vating their farms. But for a few years past there seems to be 

 a greater tendency in that direction. The mechanic and manu- 



