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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



50 bushels of apples, at 50 cents, 

 30 " " at 17 cents, 



200 dozens of egg3, at 17 cents, . 

 20 loads of pumpkins, at $1, 



550 " manure, at $1, 

 Improvement of farm, . 



Expenses : — 



Our own and hired labor, 

 Grass seed, .... 

 Seed corn, rye, wheat, &c., 

 Ashes, 200 bushels, at 20 cents, 

 One ton of gypsum, . 

 Super-phosphate of lime, . 

 Guano, ..... 

 Manure, 550 loads, . 

 Interest on land, at $100 per acre, 

 Taxes on the same, . 



Net profit on 62 acres, . 

 " on 1 acre, . 



Sunderland, October 9, 1854. 



Statement of T. P. Huntington. 



My farm, lying on the Connecticut River, in Iladley, contains 

 forty-four acres, exclusive of a small wood lot on Mount "Warner, 

 nearly two miles distant. My homestead contains ten acres of 

 the first quality naturally ; but this land gives much better re- 

 turns with manure than without. Sixteen acres, farther back, 

 are well adapted to grass ; but the greater part is rather low 

 for corn. Of the remaining eighteen acres, ten are occasion- 

 ally tilled for rye, — though inado no account of in this state- 

 ment, — and eight have been left for a few years to Nature, in 

 part, being covered with a beautiful growth of valuable trees. 



In considering the improvement upon the farm, as required 

 of competitors in the Hampshire Society's list of premiums, I 



