74 



TBAN BACTI0N8, 



11-2 tons of broom-corn, at $110, . 



1 ton of pork, ..... 



150 loads of manure, at $1, . 



300 bushels of broom-corn seed, at 33 cents, 



100 do. of rye, at 87 1-2 cents, . 

 40 do. of wheat, at $1.25, 

 80 do. of oats, at 50 cents, 

 75 do. of potatoes at 42 cents. 



EXPENSES. 



Labor, ..... 

 Grass seed, .... 

 5 bushels of rye, at 75 cents, . 

 4 do. of wheat, at $1.50, . 

 4 do. of oats, at 50 cents, . 

 10 do. of potatoes, at 1 7 cents, 

 Seed corn, .... 

 8000 tobacco plants, 

 150 loads of manure. 

 Interest on 54 acres, worth $5400, 

 Interest on 21 do., worth $1050, 

 Town and county taxes, . 



Net profit, . 

 Hadley, Nov. 25, 1853. 



165.00 

 160.00 

 150.00 

 99.00 

 87.50 

 50.00 

 40.00 

 31.50 



-$1925.50 



$170.62 

 4.00 

 3.75 

 6.00 

 2.00 

 1.70 

 1.18 

 4.00 

 150.00 

 324.00 

 63.00 

 30.00 

 $760.25 



$1165.25 

 Samuel Poweks. 



A REPORT 



ON RECLAIMED MEADOW LAND. 



BY L. W E T H E B E X X. 



The word meadow, in its first sense, signifies flat, depressed land, 

 generally lying upon the banks of a brook, or river ; as for example, 

 the meadows on the banks of the Connecticut river, or upon Muddy, 

 Flat or Beaver brooks in the eastern part of this county. Meadow 

 land does not, necessarily, imply wet land, neither does it exclude 

 such, as those will admit, who have observed the grounds situated 

 near the streams here named. Meadow is sometimes, though impro- 

 perly, used as a synonym of the word swamp, signifying low, spongy 



