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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Statement of J. A. Merriam. 



My farm which is entered for the society's premium contains 

 sixty acres and thirty-eight rods, in two separate lots. The 

 home lot contains forty-three acres and one hundred and twen- 

 ty-seven rods, and is divided into nine acres and sixty rods of 

 woodland, twenty-one acres and five rods of pasture, nine acres 

 and thirty-six rods of mowing, and four acres and twenty-eight 

 rods of ploughing, and one lot containing sixteen acres and 

 seventy-one rods, of which about four acres are an alder 

 swamp and birch knoll, and all used for pasturing. 



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The produce of the farm is : — 



18 tons of hay, at $15, . . . . $270 00 

 1 acre 130 rods of oats, S0\ bushels, at 



55 cents, 44 27 



1 acre 34 rods of corn, 58 ^ bushels, allow- 



ing 80 pounds for a bushel, at $1.10, 64 35 



128 bushels of potatoes, at 42 cents, . 53 76 



2 tons straw, 10 00 



Corn stover, 10 00 



4 cartloads pumpkins, .... 6 00 

 733 pounds of husks, sold for mattresses, 



at 2 cents, 14 66 



