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pasturing into mowing as quicl<ly as possible, I should not have 

 planted so many acres. I think it poor policy, generally, to try 

 to cultivate more ground than can be well manured. My farm 

 consists of one hundred and eighty-five acres and fifty-eight rods 

 of land, of which about forty acres is wood and timber, sprout 

 land or brush ; the remainder is suitably divided into mowing, 

 tillage and pasture. You see, by my account, I have made but 

 little over expenses since May 1st. For the six months to come, 

 I shall probably earn as much by chopping or teaming as my 

 outgoes will be, except for grain. I expect to feed what corn I 

 have raised, and have bought three tons of shorts, at twenty- 

 seven dollars per ton. • If I keep cows to eat all my hay, my 

 milk will probably return me four hundred dollars for the next 

 six months. If I do not make so much milk, I shall probably 

 sell considerable hay. D. P. Keyes. 



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P. S. I have under-estimated one item. I can make from 

 three hundred and fifty to four hundred dollars' worth of milk, 

 besides selling eight or ten tons of hay, if I feed all my grain. 



The foregoing is respectfully submitted for the Committee. 



E. H. Warren, Chairman. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



The Committee on Farms report that after several years with- 

 out an entry, one farm, which took the first premium in 1855, 

 was again entered this year for the same purpose. The rule 

 which required a particular financial statement of the yearly 

 operations, it was supposed, prevented many persons from com- 

 peting who would otherwise have done so. Many, and in fact 

 the generality of farmers, are not in the habit of keeping an 

 exact record of transactions, even where money is concerned, so 

 that it is impossible for them to know, at the year's end, whether 

 their prosperity is plus or minus. Some who do, although good 

 farmers, are unable to show a balance sheet that they feel proud 

 of. There are still others, who, though they can demonstrate to 

 themselves a very satisfactory state of affairs, yet have a modest 

 repugnance to "telling the world of it, even under the temptation 



