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able and disinterested individuals, the yearly crops have averaged 

 more than one hundred and twenty tons, or three tons to an acre. 

 We can point to a small dairy establishment,* the produce of which, 

 when all circumstances are considered, is probably not surpassed in 

 the State, where seven of our native cows, with no extra feed what- 

 ever, have averaged a yield of 160 lbs. each of butter in a season ; 

 and another| where with high feeding five cows have produced 208 

 lbs. in a season to a cow. 



We may likewise refer to the Salem Alms House farm, as an er- 

 ample of successful husbandry, which for the size of the farm, we 

 believe is not surpassed in the country. We admit that they have 

 every advantage both of labor and manure ; but it is honorable so 

 successfully to avail themselves of these advantages. We here sub- 

 join an account of the last year's produce, (1829) which, as we have 

 received it from the clerk of the establishment, may be entirely 

 relied on ; *' the same being as near the quantity produced as can 

 be ascertained, without actual weighing and measuring." 

 75 tons of English hay, 

 3 " salt hay, 

 600 bushels corn, 

 4000 " potatoes, 

 200 " barley, 

 500 " turnips, 

 200 " beets, 

 600 " onions, 

 100 " carrots, 

 50 ^' pease in pod, 

 30 " beans do. 

 10 tons squashes, 

 10 " pumpkins, 

 300 dozen cabbages, 

 200 lbs. sweet marjorum, 

 300 *' sage, 



200 ** balm and other herbs, 

 40 '' garden seeds, various sorts, 

 50 bushels cucumbers, 

 3 tons melons, 



• Of Jesse Curtis of Marblehead. See Report on the Dairy for this year. 



t Of Jesse Putnam of Danvers. See Report of Essex Agricultural Society 

 for 182t>. 



