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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Expenses : 

 Original value of land, 

 Tax for ditching, 

 Ploughing and planting in 1863, 



3 loads compost. 



Carting and spreading 175 loads 

 9 loads compost, 



4 bushels oats at 75 cents, . 

 9 quarts herdsgrass, . 



5 pounds clover, 

 Harrowing in oats. 

 Harvesting, 



3 loads compost, (autumn,) 

 Grass seed, 

 Cutting grass, 1865, . 

 Raking and carting, . 



Total expense, . 



Profits : 



1864, 1| tons oats, . 

 1865, 2 tons hay, 

 15 cwt. rowen, . 

 Present value of land. 



Deduct expenses. 



Net profit, . 

 HoPKiNTON, August 22, 1865. 



gravel at 



2J- cents. 



. $45 00 



. 40 00 



. 15 00 



. 75 00 



$175 00 

 . 70 17 



. $104 83 



Statement of George A. Adams. 

 The acre of reclaimed meadow which I enter for premium is 

 a part of six acres of land purchased in 1861, at a cost of five 

 dollars per acre. It is a part of Little Cedar Swamp, a tract of 

 meadow land comprising two hundred acres situated in the east 

 part of Hopkinton. Little Cedar Swamp was drained in 1862 

 and 1863 in accordance with the provisions of chapter one hun- 

 dred and forty-eight of the General Statutes of Massachusetts. 

 Previous to 1862, this meadow was so wet and soft as not to 

 admit of driving a team upon it, and the little hay that grew 



