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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



1859. 

 To ploughing If acres with 4 oxen, .... 

 ploughing ^ acre with 6 oxen, } day, . 

 boy and oxen 1^ days, harrowing, 

 furrowing, $1 ; 20 bushels seed potatoes, $10, 

 6 cords manure, applying manure and planting, . 

 ploughing and hoeing, -$7 ; harvesting potatoes, 86, 

 cradling rye and binding, $3 ; threshing, $2, 

 carting straw, ....... 



1860. 



To ploughing 4 acres, $9 ; harrowing 3 acres, $4, 

 raking and burning roots, 'f 1 ; furrowing, -f 2, 

 nine cords compost manure, $45 ; 3 cords strawy 



manure, $10.50, 



applying manure and planting, $20.25 ; seed corn, 



$1.08, 



10 bushels potatoes, $5 ; pumpkin and pickle seeds, 



25 cts., 



cultivating and hoeing, ..... 



cutting stalks and harvesting corn, 



harvesting potatoes, 



Total amount of expense, 



55 50 



21 33 



$224 31 



The value of the crops is as follows : — 



1859. 

 By 19 bushels rye, ...... 



1,550 pounds straw, sold at 80 cts. per hundred, 

 144 bushels large potatoes, at 50 cts., . 

 18 bushels small potatoes, at 25 cts., . 



1860. 

 By 120 bushels corn, 

 12 bushels pig corn, 

 4 tons husks and butts, 

 4,800 pounds stalks, . 

 83 bushels large potatoes, at 40 cts., 

 10 bushels small potatoes, at 20 cts.. 



