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die with them. We trust that another year will find them 

 carefully recording their operations, and offering them for the 

 guidance of others. 



George B. Loring, Chairman. 



HAMPDEN. 



Statement of* Dr. Lawson Long. 



The farm, the management of which is here detailed, con- 

 tains thirty-one acres. One acre is occupied by buildings and 

 yards, seven acres are in tillage, seven in mowing, twelve in 

 old pasture, and three in new pasture, coming into grass, where 

 the wood has recently been cut off. 



The stock on the farm consists of one farm-horse, weight 

 twelve hundred pounds, kept up all the year, one family and 

 business horse, weight one thousand pounds, also kept stalled 

 all the year, four cows from four to eight years old, and three 

 heifers two and three years old, stabled every night, and kept 

 in pasture from the tenth of May to the first of November. 



Wc shall manufacture, the present year, thirty-five cords of 

 composted manure, which is a thorough mixture of all the 

 liquid and solid manure, with all the straw we raised, used for 

 bedding cattle, refuse corn butts, etc., mixed with good soil, 

 and shoveled over five or six times before going into the ground. 

 The same process is observed as published in the Hampden 

 County Agricultural Report for 1859. All the manure is put 

 into the soil, none is used for top-dressing. Our rule is to give 

 our tillage ground, generally, five cords of compost per acre, 

 either ploughed in or put in drills. Cabbage, which is followed 

 by wheat and stocked down to grass, with one peck each of 

 Timothy and redtop, receives ten cords per acre. 



Lot No. 1. Potatoes. — Forty-nine rods of ground following 

 potatoes second year of tillage. It was ploughed ten inches 

 April loth, composted in drills, and early " Carters and Jack- 

 sons " cut and planted, one piece to the hill, one foot apart. 

 They were hoed twice and dug July 20 to 26, yielding forty- 

 eight bushels of merchantable potatoes, weighing sixty-nine 

 pounds to the bushel. They sold for forty-five dollars and 



