Excerpt from Fourteenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture: With an Appendix Containing an Abstract of the Finances of the County Societies, for 1866

Another year has come and gone. Taking the State over, to the farming as well as to other industrial interests, it has been marked by a reasonable degree of prosperity. The price of farm labor has increased about sixty per cent. since the

outbreak of the rebellion, While the cost of living has perhaps advanced to a much larger extent; but the prices of farm produce, though considerably higher than they were ?ve years ago, have not, probably, been enhanced in the same ratio. The season has been in the main propitious, and, with few exceptions, the labors of the husbandman have been rewarded by a generous harvest, though the effects of the terrible droughts of the two preceding years have been perceptible in the reduced crops of fruit.

Upon the whole, therefore, we may congratulate ourselves upon our well-earned success in the practical labors of the farm and the garden. We have, moreover, been exempt from the disasters which have fallen heavily upon the agricultural

interests of some other countries.

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