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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Expenses : — 



Three bushels of barley sown, at 90 cents, 



Guano, and applying, 



Ploughing, 



Sowing and harrowing, . 



Rolling, 



Cutting and getting in, . 



Threshing and cleaning, 



Interest on land, . 



Income : — 



36 bushels of barley, at 90 cents, . 

 One and one-fourth tons of straw, . 



$26 60 



42 40 



Net profit, $15 80 



The guano caused a very luxuriant growth of straw, some of 

 it measuring more than four feet high ; but the grain was not 

 equal to the straw, as some of it fell before ripening. 



OATS. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



The specimen of oats exhibited was raised by Mr.' Charles 

 Flagg, of Sterling, being fifty-seven bushels per acre, and weigh- 

 ing thirty-two pounds to the bushel. The whole expense of 

 cultivation, including seed, he estimates at fourteen dollars : 

 the fifty-seven bushels of oats, at fifty-live cents per bushel, 

 would amount to thirty-one dollars and thirty-five cents ; deduct 

 the fourteen dollars for cultivation, and you have left the sum 

 of seventeen dollars and thirty-live cents, not including the 

 value of straw, which he did not estimate, nor did lie charge for 

 manure applied the previous year. And your committee award 

 to him the first premium. 



Edwin Upton, Chairman. 



