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THANSACXIONS 



90 bushels of rye, at $1 17, 



95 " rye and oats, at 75 cents, 



80 " potatoes, at 50 cents, 



40 tons of hay, at SI 2, 



30 " corn stover, at $G, 

 3 1-2 " wheat and oat straw, at $6, 

 3 " rye straw, at §5, . 



50 bushels of apples, at 50 cents, 



30 " " at 17 cents, 



200 dozen eggs, at 17 cents, 



20 loads of pumpkins, at Si, 



550 loads of manure, at $1, 



Improvement of Farm, 



EXPENSES 



Our own and hired labor. 



Grass seed, ..... 



Seed corn, rye, wheat, &c., . 



200 bu&hels of ashes, at 20 cents, 



1 ton of gypsum. 



Superphosphate of Lime, 



Guano, ..... 



550 loads of manure, . 



Interest on land, at $100 per acre. 



Taxes on the same, 



Net profit on 62 acres, 

 Do. on 1 acre, 

 Sunderland, Oct. 9, 1854. 



105 30 



71 25 



40 00 



480 00 



180 00 



21 

 15 



00 

 00 



25 00 



5 10 



34 00 



20 00 



555 00 



100 00 



-$3944 90 



$869 00 

 1 00 



10 00 

 40 00 



11 00 

 45 00 

 20 00 



550 00 



384 00 



25 60 



-$1965 60 



$1979 32 

 31 90 



STATEMENT OF T. P. HUNTINGTON. 



My farm, lying on the Connecticut river in Hadley, contains forty- 

 four acres, exclusive of a small wood lot on Mt. Warner, nearly two 

 miles distant. My homestead contains ten acres of the first quality 

 naturally, but this land gives much better returns Avith manure than 

 without. Sixteen acres, further back, are well adapted to grass, but 

 the greater part is rather low for corn. Of the remaining eighteen 

 acres, ten are occasionally tilled for rye — though made of no accouiit 

 in this statement — and eight have been left for a few years to Na- 

 ture, in part being covered with a beautiful growth of raluable trees. 



In considering the improvement upon the farm, as required of 

 competitors in the Hampshire Society's list of premiums, I trust I 

 shall be excused, if, instead of including five years, I commence still 

 farther back, say fifteen years, when the buildings were all new, the 



