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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



1866. Two loads manure, 



Two and one-lialf bushels seed potatoes, 

 Ten days' labor, . . . , 

 Seventy-five loads sand, at 15 cents, 



1867. Seven loads (25 bushels,) manure, 

 Seed potatoes and corn, . 



Grass seed, ..... 

 Twenty-one days' labor, 



1868. Six pounds clover seed, . 



Sowing, 



Mowing one and one-quarter acres, 

 Raking and carting hay. 



Total expense, .... 



1132 75 



1866. 



1867. 



1868. 



PROFITS. 



Nine bushels rye, at $1.75, 

 Eight cwt. straw, . 

 Twenty-five bushels potatoes, . 

 Forty-five bushels corn, at $1.50, 

 One and one-half tons stover. 

 Ten bushels potatoes. 

 Eighteen cwt. hay. 

 One and one-quarter acres land. 



Deduct expenses. 



Net gain. 



HoPKiNTON, August 15, 1868. 



FRANKLIN. 



From the Report of the Committee on Reclaimed Sivamps. 



The Committee, on whom devolved the duty of examining 

 and reporting on reclaimed swamp lands, having performed that 

 service, offer the following Report as the result of their doings : 

 There was but one application made for premium — that of T. L. 

 Allis, of Conway — three and one-half acres of bog or marsh 

 land, that in 1863 was a worthless marsh. Ninety rods of 



