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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



^ acre carrots, 345 bus., (50 lbs. to the bus.) at 30 cts. $103 50 

 I " parsnips, 160 bushels, at 40 cents, . . 64 00 

 j " Hubbard squashes, 2,000 pounds, 1.1 cents, . 30 00 

 1 " cabbage, 2,500 heads, (merchantable) at 3 cents, 75 00 



30 barrels apples, at $1, 30 00 



1,003 lbs. butter, made since Istof May,sold for 24 cts., 255 12 

 1,000 quarts milk, sold for 4 cents, . . . . 40 00 



Skim milk fed to calves, 41 00 



" " pigs, 32 00 



322 dozen eggs, sold for 20 cents, . . . . 64 40 

 60 chickens, at 30 cents, . . . . . 18 00 



Deduct hired labor, board not included, 

 one man, one year, .... 



Deduct hired labor, one man, 8 months, . 

 " " boy, 6 months, 



" " woman, one year, . 



" grain used, . . . . . 



Profit, 



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No allowance is made in this account for the labor of myself 

 and wife, or for the board of hired help, taxes, &c. 



In addition to the crops enumerated above, there have been 

 raised two acres of sowed corn, which, together with small 

 potatoes, pumpkins, &c., were fed to stock in summer and fall, 

 of which no account has been made ; neither has any account 

 been made of the milk and cream consumed by a family of 

 eight persons. The team work on the farm has been performed 

 by one horse, with the exception of the ploughing, to assist in 

 which I have exchanged labor with a neighbor. 



Eleven cows and one yearling heifer comprise the neat stock 

 on the premises, which are managed as follows : — 



In the summer they are pastured, but stabled at night, being 

 confined by stanchions upon a platform, with a trench in the 

 rear which is supplied each day with dry muck. Managed in 

 this way no fodder is wasted, the cows are kept clean, the 

 manure is all saved under cover till used. During the past 

 year, the amount manufactured in this way has been about one 



