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if well managed, which may be fully remunerated by two or three 

 pf the first crops. Besides this, we have considerable quantities of 

 superior land ; a good soil resting upon a clay or hard pan and reten- 

 tive of the manure which is put upon it. Our bogs and swamps in 

 the interior of the County furnish abundant means of increasing our 

 manure and enriching our uplands ; and as a large part of the County 

 is washed by the sea, the grounds in its vicinity are benefitted by the 

 saline atmosphere ; and the means of greatly increasing their fer- 

 tility by muscle bed and sea-wreck are within our reach. Of these 

 advantages many of the farmers in the neighborhood of the ocean 

 avail themselves, and the products of some of the farms in the 

 County, both in the interior and on the sea-board, are highly credit- 

 able to their industrious and intelligent cultivators. 



We have authentic statements, by which it appears that the fol- 

 lowing amount of crops have been raised at different times in differ- 

 ent parts of this County : — 



Of Wheat — 24 bushels, and 28 bushels to the acre.* 



Of Indian Corn— 70 bushels; 72 bushels; 71^ bushels: 90J 

 bushels; 93f bushels; 105 bushels 6 quarts ; 110 bushels; 113^ 

 bushels ; 115 bushels ; 1 17^- bushels.t 



Of Barley — 50 bushels ; 51J- bushels ; 52 bushels and 18 qts. 



Of Potatoes— 518^ bushels. 



Of Carrots— 849 bushels ; 864 bushels ; and 378 bushels, at 5G 

 lbs. per bushel ; and 900 bushels. 



Of Mangel Wurtzel — 924 bushels ; and 1340 bushels to an acre, 

 at 56 !bs. per bushel. 



Of Ruta Baga — 688 bushels. 



Of Beets— 783 bushels. 



Of English Turnips— 636 bushels : 687 bushels ; 672 bushels ; 

 751 bushels ; 814 bushels. 



Of Onions— 651 bushels.t 



We know of a lot of six acres from which thirty tons of Hay, ac- 

 tually weighed, were gathered in one season ; and another field of 

 about forty acres, from which, according to the statement of respect- 



* The average produce of wheat and ryo in Great Britain is 18 bushels to 

 the acre. Sec Armstrong's Treatise on Agriculture, p. 31. 



■t Mr. Burnham's crop of 117 ^ bushels was rated at 50 lbs. to a bushel. 

 Messrs. Little's of 115 bushels at 5G lbs. to a busliel. Rating Messrs. Little's 

 crop at 50 lbs. per bushel, it would be equal to 134 bushels to the acre. 



X The above statements are to be found in the Memoirs of the r«rassachusett3 

 Agricultural Society, and the Reports of the Essex Agricultural Society. 



