112 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



1859. 

 May. 



Sept. 



2 days' ploughing with six oxen and three hands, 



Use of plough, ..... 



Harrowing, ..... 



Thirty loads of manure, 



Planting and seed, .... 



Hoeing once, ..... 



Harvesting, ..... 



£0 rods of underdrain, at forty cents per rod 



Credit by 80 bushels of potatoes at fifty cents, 

 20 bushels corn, at one dollar, 

 GO bushels turnips, at twenty cents, 

 4 bushels tomatoes, at forty cents, 



Expense, ..... 



Value of crop, .... 



1859. 



Oct. To digging and filling sixteen rods of ditch, . 



Ploughing, 3 days, with 1 pair oxen and 1 hand. 

 Use of plough, 



Total expense up to December 1, 1859, . 



Income to the same date, ..... 



Leaving the land in debt to me, .... 



To this add tlic interest on the land at -f 20 per 



acre, $-3.00, will leave the balance against the land, 



1860. 



May. To 12 rods of ditch djjg and filled, 



ploughing and harrowing, 



})lanting and seed, ..... 



hoeing, three times, .... 



cutting, binding and carrying stalks, 



70 loads of manure, half its value, . 



18 00 



1 00 



2 00 

 15 00 

 12 00 



00 

 00 

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$103 85 



