14 THE HISTORY OF THE 



Wm. Bartlett's 200-acre farm in Methuen, reported his 

 harvest in 1822 : 



70 tons English hay. 

 306 bushels of oats. 

 1200 bushels of potatoes. 

 300 bushels of corn. 

 1100 bushels of English turnips. 

 300 bushels of Ruta bagas. 

 40 bushels Winter apples. 

 20 bushels Winter pears. 

 6 bushels white beans. 

 500 lbs. of flax. 

 100 bbls. of cider. 

 400 lbs. of butter. 

 2400 lbs. of cheese. 



The stock comprised 15 cows, 10 oxen, 3 heifers, 4 fat 

 oxen, 12 calves, 19 swine, 34 sheep and lambs, and one 

 horse. The labor, Mr. Morse stated, was performed by 

 himself and wife, with two men and a boy and two young 

 women or girls, but in most "hurrying times" as many 

 hands as can be employed to cut and cure to advantage, 

 "carried on entirely without the use of ardent spirits at 

 any season of the year." 



The farm of the Salem Alms House raised crops of 

 large variety, including squashes, cucumbers, melons, rad- 

 ishes, broom corn, celery and pot herbs. It supported 

 10 oxen, 10 cows and 2 horses. On the great Pickman 

 farm, Erastus Ware kept 50 cows, 6 oxen and 3 horses, 

 and raised milk for the Salem market. His laborers 

 were provided with family beer, molasses and water, milk 

 and water, but no ardent spirits. 



James Osgood of Andover employed a man and a boy 

 by the year, and another man five or six weeks in haying 

 time, yet in the year 1829 he mowed about 50 acres, and 

 fenced in his farm with nearly a thousand rods of stone 

 wall, mostly laid with his own hands, with rocks which 

 were all brought from a distance of half a mile or more. 



