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dollars, in the place of stable manure. The yield on this was 

 four hundred bushels. On the whole piece it was nine hundred 

 and fifty-seven bushels, costing three and three-fourth cents 

 per bushel. 



Cabbage. — One acre was manured in the drill with five cords 

 of fine manure. The plants were set two and a half by four 

 feet. Twenty-five hundred heads of merchantable cabbage was 

 raised, at an expense of thirteen days' labor. 



Tobacco. — One and one-eighth acres received fifteen cords of 

 manure per acre. Commenced setting June IGth, in rows three 

 feet by two. Labor, not including the stripping, forty-eight 

 days. Amount of crop, by estimation, two thousand pounds, 

 costing, before stripping, nearly two and a half cents per pound. 



Chicopee, December 1, 1860. 



NORFOLK. 



Report of the Supervisory Committee. 



The Supervisory Committee, in pursuance of their duties, 

 visited some farms in the county during the past season, but 

 owing to the engagements of some of the members, were not 

 able to make as extensive observations as they otherwise might 

 have done. 



The farm of Hon. Josiah Quincy, of Quincy, now in the occu- 

 pancy of his son, Hon. Josiah Quincy, Jr., consists of 500 acres, 

 about one-half of which is woodland. It came into the posses- 

 sion of the first American ancestor of the family, Edmund 

 Quincy, direct from the Indians, in 1636. It comprises a por- 

 tion of what was the favorite corn-ground of the tribe from which 

 the name of our Commonwealth was derived, and what was the 

 home (so far as a savage can be said to have had a home) of 

 Chickatabot, the reigning chief of " the Massachusetts " at the 

 time of the first settlement of the English in the neighborhood. 

 Here, too, was the cemetery of the tribe, or, at least, one of the 

 places where they interred their dead. Their bones are not 

 unfrequently disturbed by the processes incident to the civiliza- 

 tion wliich has swept away these " native Americans," and left 

 scarcely an outward mark of their existei^e. 



