TAKM ACCOUNTS. 29 



Cash. 



Money received during the year, . $1,248 13 



Money paid out during tlie year, . 1,237 74 



Not accounted for, . . . 10 39 



Total profits of the year, . . . $692 35 



From which I deduct. 

 Interest on investment, . . . . $412 91 



Cash not accounted for, . . , . 10 39 



Loss on potatoe crop, .... 25 



t23 55 



Surplus Profits, .... $268 80 



THE FIKSI II¥EIT©8,Y, AFEiL 1, 185©. 



Buildings and land. 

 Horse, cattle, swine and fowls. 

 Hay, grain and straw. 

 Carriages and farm tools, 

 Yard manure and ashes. 



$5,700 00 



400 00 



266 00 



235 00 



91 50 



-$6,692 50 



These accounts have been kept daily ; very few days passing with- 

 out one or more entries on the day book, which contains 22 long col- 

 ums. As I trusted to my memory through each day, someitems have 

 been forgotten. The error in the cash account shows the importance 

 of a correct method. The other accounts I think, however, are gen- 

 erally correct. I have avoided as much as possible making estimates. 



It may not be out of place, here, to say that though for many years 

 I have had a great curiosity to know the result of such accounts, yet 

 I have always shrunk from the labor. It was not till after I had 

 made a fair beginning, from personal considerations, that your premi- 

 um was announced. The amount of the premium alone would' be no 

 sort of inducement to go over the ground again. If there is anything 

 in this imperfect effort, to guide, or encourage to something more 

 worthy, the labor will not be lost. Should anything appear meritori- 

 ous, no small share of the credit will belong to my friend A. D. Phelps. 



T. P. HUNTIKGTON. 



Hadley, April 2, 1856. 



