15G 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Value of crop : — 



One hundred and eighty bushels, at $1, 

 Eight baskets of soft corn, . 

 Corn fodder, estimated, 



Expenses : — 



Forty-five loads of manure, 

 Ploughing and spreading, 

 Seed and planting, 

 Hoeing and cultivating, 



Cutting and stacking, 

 Carting and husking, 

 Interest on land, 



$200 00 



129 00 



Net gain, . 



Amherst, November 14, 1854. 



$71 00 



BERKSHIRE. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



Forty-five pieces were entered for premium. On three-acre 

 pieces we gave H. D. Palmer, of Stockbridge, the first premium ; 

 L. Foot, of Lee, the second ; and G. W. Wood, of Lanesboro', the 

 third. Mr. Palmer's field contains four acres, and was in corn 

 last year. It received twenty-five loads of compost per acre. 

 This year thirteen loads of compost per acre were harrowed in. 

 Thirty-one and one-fourth hills to the rod gave fifty-four and 

 three-fourths pounds. Mr. Foot's land was in oats last year; 

 no manure was used. This year twenty loads of long manure 

 ploughed in, and ten loads of short put in the hill, per acre ; 

 one-half the field was planted to eight-rowed and the other half to 

 twelve-rowed corn, thirty-two and one-half hills to the rod, giv- 

 ing fifty-three and one-half pounds. Mr. Wood's ground was 

 sward land, ploughed six inches Avith ten loads of manure spread 

 on; and one hundred and fifty pounds of plaster, per acre, put 

 in the hill ; forty hills to the rod gave fifty-three pounds. 



