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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



We hope the time will come when cranberry growing will 

 receive the attention it deserves, as we consider it an impor- 

 tant branch of cultivation. 



Israel H. Sherman, Chairman. 

 SciTUATE, October 1, 1868. 



GRAIN CROPS. 



MIDDLESEX SOUTH. 



Statement of Henry Bright, Jr., of South Framing-ham. 



INDIAN CORN. 



Four and a half acres entered for premium. 



$224 00 



Product. 



Mr. Charles Frost, surveyor, measured the land, and found 



it to be but four and a half acres, planted to corn. The total 



yield of this was 585 baskets, viz. : 467 baskets sound ear corn, 



weighing 45 pounds to basket, and 18 baskets pig corn ; or 



467 baskets corn, worth 85 cents per bundle, 

 18 baskets pig corn, worth 25 cents per basket, 

 1,030 bundles of tops, at 2 cents per basket, . 

 4| tons husks and buts, $8, 



Total product, ...... 



$396 15 



4 50 



20 60 



36 00 



$458 25 



