120 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



The work upon the two acre lot in the spring 



and summer of 1859, was 

 Six cords of manure, ..... 

 1860, labor through the season, . 



8-^ cords of manure, .... 



Expense of the one acre lot : — 



1859, work, ploughing and digging rocks, . 



1860, five cords of manure, 

 labor through the season, . 



Ashes from burnt roots and brush, 



The produce has been as follows, from the two acre 

 lot, in 1859:— 

 Corn and corn-fodder, .... $64 00 



Potatoes, 8 40 



Cabbage, 30 00 



8347 50 



1860, pease, 832.25 ; early cabbage, 840, . 872 25 

 pickles, 848.11 ; sweet corn, 86, . 54 11 



late cabbage, 848; Savoy and red do., 812, 60 00 

 ruta-baga, . . . . . . 33 75 



8102 40 



220 11 



From the one acre lot, as follows : — 



1860, corn, 83 bushels and 37 pounds, . 883 65 



4,900 pounds top stalks, at 815 per ton, 36 75 



6,000 pounds butts and husks, . . 22 60 



Besides having a good handsome field for cultivation, instead of 

 an almost worthless, rocky, and bushy pasture. Perhaps I 

 should have mentioned that tliere are a few rods at one corner 

 of the acre lot which are now in their natural state. 



jMiltox, ^November 12, 1860. 



