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NOTE. 



It will at once occur upon examination, that the foregoing returns by no 

 means embrace the whole of the agricultural produce of the town. No 

 account is made of fuel and timber of various kinds ; none of milk used 

 in families; of poultry consumed and sold; of garden-vegetables; none of 

 fruit, cider, &c. &c. 



No returns are made of corn-fodder, which, when well cured, most farmers 

 consider equal to the best of hay, ton for ton ; and which, allowing 35 bush- 

 els of corn and two tons of fodder to an acre, would amount to 568 tons. 

 No account is made of straw, which, allowing 25 bushels to an acre of 

 wheat, rye, barley and oats, and l.J ton of straw, would have amounted to 

 1971 tons. 



Some small amount of maple sugar was made in the town — one farmer 

 having made six hundred pounds ; others, perhaps, as much. This, as I 

 shall show hereafter, is destined to become a valuable product of the state; 

 several towns, in the spring of IS'58, having made twenty, some thirty, and 

 some nearly forty thousand i)ounds. I have two returns, of over thirty 

 thousand pounds to a town, in Franklin county, ascertained. H. C. 



