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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



English hay, ten acres mowed, had eighteen tons. 



Fresh hay, fourteen acres mowed, had ten tons. 



By referring to last year's report you will perceive that I have 

 doubled my crop of English hay the present year, which shows 

 the superiority of low ground, when it is properly subdued and 

 drained, over high land, for raising grass. 



For three years past I have used Ketchum's one-horse mower, 

 and it has worked satisfactorily. 



In the month of September I carted two hundred and ten 

 loads of gravel and sand on an acre of low swampy ground. 

 The stumps had previously been removed, the surface was ^ 

 levelled, the sand evenly spread, and seeded to Timothy and 

 red top. 



The manure, collected in the barn cellar since planting, has 

 been carted out and mixed with equal parts of soil and loam, 

 to remain in a heap, to be applied as a top-dressing for grass 

 another season. 



The present autumn I have set three-eighths of an acre 

 with cranberry vines, in rows, twenty-four by sixteen inches, 

 six or eight vines to a hill. The land was first levelled and 

 covered with sand. The lot is on a small spring brook, with a 

 dam, so that the vines will be flowed in the winter, and at any 

 time when there is danger of a frost. 



PKODUCTS OF THE FARM. 



125 bushels corn. 



18 tons English hay, 

 10 " fresh hay. 



Beef and pork, fatted, 



170 lbs. butter, 



230 " cheese, . 



Calves sold, . 



Lambs and wool, . 



$100 00 

 18 00 



6 00 

 20 00 



8 00 

 70 00 



6 00 

 Co 00 

 288 00 

 90 00 

 50 00 

 34 00 

 24 00 

 18 00 

 70 00 



$862 00 



