FARMS. 



25 



Lot System for 1865 — Continued. 



Lot. 



ARTICLES GROWN, Ac. 



Value. 



Expenses. 



No. 7 



8 

 9 



10 

 11 

 12 

 13 

 14 

 15 

 16 



17 

 18 

 19 



20 



99 



acres, 



growinnf 



woodland — Growth of 



Wood, 



13 acres, sheep pasture — Value of Pasture, 

 5 acres, young p6ach orchard — Corn, Pota- 

 toes, Turnips, .... 

 4^ acres, orchard — Fruit, 

 ^ acre, calf lot — Pasture, 



I acre. Hay, 



5 acres, 2 lots in one — Hay, Pasture, 



3 acres, upper orchard, (fallow land) — Fruit 



3^ acres, lower orchard — Hay, Fruit, 



1^ acres, field garden — Vegetables, Melons 



&c., 



10 acres, swamp — Hay, Cranberries, 



9 acres, rye field — Rye, 



65 acres, woodland and pasture — Cord Wood 



sold, Pasture, .... 

 Island — Increased growth of Wood, 



$48 00 

 12 00 



255 50 



324 00 



5 00 



50 00 



64 00 



180 00 



327 00 



110 00 

 60 00 



188 75 



119 00 

 22 00 



$5 00 

 2 00 



109 25 



50 00 



1 00 



10 00 



13 00 

 35 00 

 62 00 



31 62 



14 00 

 70 00 



20 00 



Austin J. Roberts. 



Lakeyille, Mass., Dec. 1, 1865. 



PLYMOUTH. 



From the Report of the Supervisor. 



The practice of seeking the greatest possible production, at 

 the least possible cost, has impoverished the soil on thousands of 

 acres of land in Massachusetts, and on tens of thousands of 

 acres of the more fertile lands of other States. Here, the ele- 

 ments of fertility have been abstracted and " carried to mill ; " 

 elsewhere, they have been " carried to market." Where culti- 

 vation was easy, past generations have taken ever from the soil, 

 giving little or nothing in return, leaving to their successors the 

 almost hopeless task of restoring what their ignorance or 

 cupidity destroyed. And this practice of our ancestors is not 

 without imitations in the present generation. Men buy and 

 drive land, as animals sometimes have been bought and driven, 

 for the express purpose of being worn out ; and measuring all 

 things by the standard of dollars and cents, they claim that the 

 operation is a profitable one. If it is profitable to get gain by 

 robbing one's contemporaries, it may be so to rob one's succes- 



