Excerpt from Twelfth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture: Together With Reports of Committees Appointed to Visit the County Societies, With an Appendix Containing an Abstract of the Finances of the County Societies for 1864 The manufacture and application of concentrated manures has also been largely on the increase in certain sections Of the State, while greater system in making and economizing stable manures has been more widely introduced, and the buying and feeding Of store cattle or sheep for the winter, mainly for the sake of their manure, which, before the war, was confined to a few, has become by no means uncommon in those portions of the State where the want of manure has been mostly seriously felt. When the price Of ordinary farm-yard manure rises to ten dollars a cord and more in a district remote from market, ' it becomes a pretty strong incentive to effort and economy in its production. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.