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REMARKS. 



The preceding table exhibits the number of farms, farmers, farm 

 laborers, acres of improved and unimproved land, cash value of farms 

 and of farm implements and machinery, number of horses, asses and 

 mules, cows, oxen, other cattle, sheep and swine, value of live stock, 

 bushels of wheat, rye, corn, oats, pease and beans, Irish potatoes, sweet 

 potatoes, barley, buckwheat and grass seeds, pounds of tobacco, wool, 

 butter, cheese, clover seed, hops, flax, flaxseed, maple sugar, beeswax 

 and honey, gallons of wine and maple molasses, tons of hay, value of 

 orchard products and produce of market gardens, and value of slaugh- 

 tered animals, for each town in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as 

 exhibited by the official returns of the Eighth (1860) United States 

 Census. 



The table does not include returns from Lawrence, Essex County, or 

 Provincetown, Barnstable County, as none of either of these towns were 

 returned by the marshals. 



The following items, relating to the milk business, are not included in 

 the preceding table. They comprise all the references to this important 

 product to be found in the official returns. 



In Taunton, 35 farmers sell milk ; in Springfield, 9 ; in Bridgewater, 

 16; in North Bridgewater, 16; in Fitchburg, 28; in Leominster, 57. 

 In Agawam, $900 worth of milk is sold annually ; in "Ware, $2,000 ; in 

 Warren, $40,000. In West Bridgewater, four farmers sold $2,090 worth 

 of milk. The towns of Canton, Sharon, Stoughton and Dedham, send 

 to market 468,000 gallons of milk annually. 



The number of "farmers," as given in the table, does not include 

 females returned as farmers. Of these there are, perhaps, twenty in the 

 State. The number returned as " farm laborers," is hardly more than 

 an approximation to the number of those whose principal employment is 

 upon the farm, as laborers for hire, — if even that. Some of the marshals 

 return all laborers, as simply " laborers ;" others return such as " day 

 laborers ;" and others, as " farm laborers." In some cases farmers' sons 

 are returned as " farm laborers ;" in others, as " laborers ;" in others, as 

 " help ;" and in others, no occupation is given. This will account for 

 the great discrepancy in the returns of the various towns. For instance, 

 in Fitchburg, with 202 farms, and 233 farmers, no farm laborers are 

 returned ; and the same is the case with the adjoining town of Leominster. 

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