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tremity of Cape Ann, knows that nothing in an agricultural view can 

 be n)ore forbidding. Forty years ago, a farmer, who, looking mainly 

 to the ocean for subsistence, had the courage to plant himself among 

 these elder-swamps, huckleberry bushes, frowning hills of granite, 

 and rolling boulders, was not able to keep a single cow without pro- 

 curing hay for her support, from Essex, or Rowley, or Newbury, a 

 distance of several miles, has become now a large seller of hay. In 

 1832 and 33, he had two acres of Indian corn, yielding 80 bushels 

 of sound corn to the acre. In 1830, he gathered from six manured 

 acres sowed to winter rye, 21 bushels, or more than 35 bushels to 

 an acre ; and 14 acres of such land, if land it may be called, which 

 you can scarcely find among the overhanging masses of granite, have 

 produced 30 tons of English hay for the first crop, seldom worth 

 less than $20 per ton. The average yield of their mowing land is 

 always rated at two to three tons to an acre. Their mowing land 

 they value at $300 per acre, because it will pay a handsome profit 

 upon that price. This little despised territory, which within so kw 

 years imported all its produce, at a recent valuation, is thus reported: 

 Crops. 

 Hay, . . 845 tons, Oats, . 130 bushs. 



Indian Corn, 690 bushs. Potatoes, 8635 " 



Rye, . . 390 " 584 acres cultivated. 



It now has a considerable amount of agricultural produce for sale. 

 Much of this productiveness is effected by the use of sea manures, 

 particularly fish garbage, of which they usually apply ploughed in 

 six or seven loads to the acre. Its effects are powerful. 



FARM REPORTS. 



Out of a considerable number of Farm Reports, which have been 

 given to me, I have selected a few rather incidentally than otherwise; 

 and from different fjarts of the county, that a fair specimen may be 

 presented of the condition of its agriculture. 



Farm I. This farm consists of 49 J acres, of which 16 are in 

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