FARMS. 



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10 tons of corn fodder, at $5, . 



2 tons of oat straw, at $5, 



250 loads of compost manure, . 



Expenditures: — 



My own labor, 225 days, . 

 Hired man 1G days in hay time, 



Grass seed, 



Seed corn, 1 bushel, .... 



Seed oats, 10 bushels, at 62} cents, . 



Seed potatoes, 2 bushels, at 50 cents, 



1,000 pounds of plaster, . 



35 bushels of oyster-Shell lime, . 



250 loads of compost manure, . 



Interest on G9 acres tillage and mowing 



at $50, 



jLaxes, ...... 



Xet profit, 



Hadlet, October 4, 1854. 



$564 3G 



NORFOLK. 



Report of the Committee. 



The committee on farms announce with regret that but a 

 single farm in the county was presented for their examination. 

 .This fact would seem to indicate an absence of laudable pride 

 among the farmers of Norfolk. Scores of men show fine bulls, 

 cows, and calves, horses, poultry, and pigs, and receive, as 

 they deserve, commendation therefor,- but the possession of a 

 fine animal is, too often, a mere matter of accident, — a for- 

 tunate purchase, the happening in the neighborhood of a fine 

 bull or stallion, or the like, — and too seldom the effect of sys- 

 tematic and judicious breeding. In fine, a man may sweep the 

 show of prizes on stock, and yet be a very indifferent farmer ; 

 but when he exhibits a well-tilled and economically-managed 

 farm in proof of his claim to the honorable title of a good 



