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^vithin and how much from without the State. A simple 

 enumeration of the sum total, either in pounds, bushels, 

 acres, or their value in dollars, does not always give a 

 full idea of the quantity our farmers have to sell, or the 

 real productiveness of the soil. A few equalizations and 

 comparisons, however, may help in attaining an approx- 

 imate idea. The wheat crop for I860 gives but a trifle 

 over one quart to each inhabitant, and if to the wheat, 

 the rye, barley and buckwheat be added, it would give 

 11.4 quarts to each person ; still add to this the whole 

 corn crop, and there would be 1.9 bushels of grain 

 whereof each inhabitant could make his bread. The po- 

 tato crop divided equally gives three bushels to each, 

 but of the whole crop so small a portion comes to mar- 

 ket that our cities must obtain a part of their supply 

 from other States. There is only one cow to every nine 

 people to supply dairy products ; the cheese made gives 

 a fraction over three pounds to each. Boston with its 

 present population would find in all the butter sold from 

 the farm about 10 pounds to each person. It has been 

 argued by some that fruit culture would be overdone, 

 and that even now apples do not pay ; yet within the 

 last few years we have imported largely of all varieties, 

 and if the amount of what has been brought into the 

 8tate, both fresh and preserved, foreign and domestic, 

 could be ascertained, without doubt it would exceed all 

 which has l)ecn sold from it even in our most fruitful 

 years. 



An average of the hay crop gives each farm 13.2 

 tons ; the oat crop 14.2 bushels ; corn 42.3 ; potatoes 

 about 81 bushels ; the wheat less than one. The English 

 hay divided among the horses, cattle, and one fifth of 

 the sheep is 1.3 tons to each animal; add to the English 



