44 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



As to farming implements, I mean to keep along with the times 

 as near as the circumstances of a small farm will seem to au- 

 thorize. Going a little farther in this matter within the last 

 ten years, I succeeded at last in getting three acres of grass 

 cut at the very moderate sum of fifteen dollars — five dollars 

 per acre. 



I am not aware of much improvement in the way of rail 

 fences, unless it is in laying them up in snug piles or upon the 

 barn beams for scaffolding. 



One framed building has been added to the place within the 

 last five years, and paint and paper to the amount of some 

 eighty dollars. The paint upon the house being yet good, it 

 received last week a covering of oil, merely to preserve the 

 paint, and thus the timber. This is mentioned only as an item 

 in the " economy of farm management," as the expense did not 

 exceed five dollars, whereas a coat of paint two years hence 

 would probably have cost thirty. 



Some sixty or more young fruit trees about the buildings, of 

 different kinds, merely for family use, constitute the orchard, 

 except fifteen or twenty older ones scattered upon the farm. 



The income of the farm, or the produce of the present year, 

 at the market prices, with the expenses, will stand, I suppose, 

 nearly as follows : — 



Products : — 



Hay, estimated at 18 tons, at $12.50 per ton, $225 00 



330 bushels of ears of Indian corn, at 50 cts., 165 00 



4 tons of corn stover, at $5 per ton, . . 20 00 



1,200 pounds of husks, at 75 cents per cwt, 9 00 

 Broom brush from 3 acres, estimated at 1 



ton, at 10 cents, . . . . 200 00 

 150 bushels of broom seed from 3 acres, 



at 2 shillings, 50 00 



3 acres of oats, estimated at 100 bushels, 



at GO cents, GO 00 



Oat Btraw from three acres, estimated at 2 



tons, at $5, 10 00 



40 bushels of good Carter potatoes, at 75 cts, 30 00 



20 " small « " at 25 cents, 5 00 



