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Hands employed from April to October, at an aver- 

 age of $16 a month, 



Labor paid by the day, 



Board of men, at $10 a month. 



Night soil from ten vaults, 



Manure from one stable in Boston, . 



Teaming the same, . 



Manure from one stable in Charlestown, the produce 

 of 44 horses, at $10 a horse, delivered on the farm 



Manure from Porter's stable in Cambridge, 30 cords 

 at $5 50 a cord, .... 



$672 00 



80 00 



420 00 



30 00 



400 00 



300 00 



440 00 



165 00 



$2,507 00 



The proceeds of sales, from March 3d to September 23d, as 

 rendered by the market-men. of which a daily account is kept, 

 $4,544 79, leaving a balance of $2,037 79 in favor of the farm, 

 exclusive of all the crops now on the land, probably worth as 

 much more. Mr. Pierce generally manages so as to have his 

 manure from the stables brought at a time when it can be spread 

 and ploughed in. He makes no compost but what is manufac- 

 tured by two hogs. His domestic animals are one or two cows 

 and three horses, used for ploughing and transporting his fruit 

 and vegetables to market. 



The second premium is awarded to Ebenezer Davis, Jr., of 

 Acton, from whose statement the following abstract is derived. 

 Mr. Davis's farm contains about 140 acres. It is generally of 

 a light, sandy soil, and some of it too poor for cultivation. 

 About 60 acres are woodland, 30 are pasture, and about 50 are 

 under cultivation. He raised last year (1847) 750 baskets of 

 sound corn from ten acres, supposed by his neighbors to over- 

 run 400 bushels when shelled, — not an extraordinary crop, but 

 a very good one, considering the nature of the soil, and the 

 manure and labor expended. The field was grass ground, 

 ploughed in the autumn and cross-ploughed in the spring. His 

 manure was composed, at first, of one fourth green stable 

 manure and three fourths peat or mud, dug in the autumn 

 before used. AVith these materials he worked in small quanti- 



