45 



Plowing land, $3 iSO 



Harrowing land, 1 00 



Furrowing- land, 50 



Carting twenty-five loads manure, 4 00 



Six bushels of seed, 3 00 



Planting, 3 00 



Hoeing, ■ 5 00 



Digging, 8 00 



$27 00 . 

 Estimated Product : 

 Average 150 bushels, at 50 cents, $75 00 



Expense, 27 00 



Profit to the farmer, $48 00 



One acre of corn : 



Plowing, $3 50 



Harrowing, 1 00 



Furrowing, 50 



Carting twenty-five loads manure, 4 00 



Seed, 50 



Planting, 3 00 



Hoeing, 5 00 



Harvesting 7 50 



$24 00 

 Product: 40 bushels, $30 00 



Fodder, 7 50 



$37 50 

 Expenses, 24 00 



Profits, $13 50 



One acre of oal8 : 



Preparing land, sowing, &c., $5 00 



Three bushels of seed, 1 50 



Threshing, &c., 3 00 



$12 50 

 Products : Forty bushels oats, 50 cents. $30 00 



Straw, 3 00 



23 00 

 Expenses, 12 50 



Profits, $10 50 



Certainly in tiie face of these tigures it is useless to longer affirm that money 

 cannot be made from Berkshire's hill farms. 



M. I. Wheeler, of Great BarriDgton, said it might seem that sheep raising 

 should be protitable, but returns show that it is not. There are not nearly as 

 many raised as formerly, while cows have increased considerably. He advocates 

 Berkshire farmers raising their own cattle, and not to depend on buying. It is 

 wrong to sell all our cattle. He thought that two hundred pounds of butter per 

 cow, per year, was the least that the farmer should be satisfied with. H" the 

 cow will not yield that quantity she had better go to the butcher. Another 

 matter of great importance is to make butter that will command at least an 

 average price. Butter has been selling in the New York market of late for 

 twenty to thirty- six cents. The best figure, thirty- six cents, was not for a 

 fancy article, made from pure Jerseys by special process. That commands fifty, 

 sixty, and even eighty cents. But it was the best price for good ordin-iry table 

 butter, and the farmer who has been sending his product away for less than 

 that, has wronged himself and shown that he has not given the attention to his 

 business that he should. A difference in prices of even two or three cents a 

 pound should not be lost sight of. Two and a half cents a pound more or lesp 



