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products, annually sold in market, average not less than five hundred 

 pounds of cheese and two hundred and fifty pounds of butter. 



During the present year, I have cultivated six acres in corn and 

 potatoes and four acres in oats, and mowed twenty acres. The labor 

 has been wholly performed by myself, except for sixteen days in the 

 hay season, when I hired a man to assist me. 



PRODUCTS. 



30 tons of hay, at $12 50, . 



5 acres of grass, sold at §11 50. 



250 bushels of corn, at $1, 



150 " of oats, at 62 1-2 cents, 



Pasturage of 13 horned cattle, 26 weeks, at 33 1 



25 bushels of potatoes, at 50 cents, 



20 " of apples, at 50 cents, 



527 pounds of cheese, at 10 cents, 



250 pounds of butter, at 20 cents, 



10 tons of corn fodder, at $5, 



2 tons of oat straw, at $5, 



250 loads of compost manure, 



EXPENDITUKES 



My own labor, 225 days, 



Hired man 10 days in haj'^-time, 



Grass seed, • . . . . 



Seed corn, 1 bushel. 



Seed oats, 10 bushels, at 62 1-2 cents, 



Seed potatoes, 2 bushels, at 50 cents, 



1000 pounds of plaster, 



75 bushels of oyster-shell lime, 



250 loads of compost manure, 



Interest on 69 acres tillage and mowing, at 



Taxes, ....... 



Net profit, . 

 Hadley, Oct. 4, 1854. 



$375 00 

 57 50 



250 00 

 93 75 

 3c., 112 66 

 12 50 

 10 00 

 52 70 

 50 00 

 50 00 

 10 00 



250 00 



U324 11 



$759 75 

 $564 36 



