tural interest of the town is impor-
tant, and on many of the farms it
is lucrative business. There are
34 farms in town whose annual ag-
ricultural productions are respect-
ively valued at over $1,000; 14
over $ 1,500; 7 over $2,000; 5 over
$2,800; 3 over $3,600; and 1
$4,800. Seven farms are valued
at $ 97,000, and have a total area
of improved land of 1,700 aci*es.
The total amount annually paid for
labor was $4,200; and the total
value of farm productions $ 22,100,
or $ 13 to each acre of improved
land. These seven farms have in-
vested in stock and farming imple-
ments, about $ 15,000, and received
from the forest production less
than $ 2,500; making, after de-
ducting for labor and taxes, over
12 per cent, on the capital invested
in farming. There are 1,488,000
yards of cotton cloth annually man-
ufactured, 345,000 yards of flannel
woven, 30,000 pairs of shoes made;
leather tanned, $4,500; castings
and machinery to the value of
$60,000; doors, sash, and blinds
to the value of $20,000; saws,
$ 10,000; 336,000 bushels of wheat
and other grain ground, and over
1,000,000 feet of lumber of all kinds
sawed. There were ground 46,800
barrels of flour in 1872, and the
barrels for the flour were made
near the mill. The total value of
all goods manufactured annually
is $907,600, employing 180 males
and 104 females, who annually re-
ceive for their labor, $ 129,600.
Capital invested in manufactures,
$310,600.

Resources. Productions of the
soil, $94,273; mechanical labor,
$ 129,600; money at interest, $ 30,
725; stocks, &c., $36,000; deposits
in savings banks, $ 103,492; stock
in trade, $48,975; professional
business, $ 10,000.

Fisherville. On the Contoocook
River, and near its confluence with
the Merrimack, is situated the en-
terprising manufacturing village
of Fisherville. It is located on the
line between Boscawen and Con-
cord, and is nearly equally divided
between the two towns, with the
larger portion in Concord. The
most valuable water-power on the
Contoocook is at this point, the
water falling over 60 feet in a dis-
tance of less than a mile. In this
village there are two cotton mills,
annually manufacturing 4,386,000
yards of cotton print cloth, two
woolen mills, annually producing
flannel, cassimeres, and yarn to the
value of $105,000; bedsteads, bu-
reaus, sinks, teapoys, and looking-
glass frames to the value of $ 173,
000. Foundry and machine shop,
$65,000; grain ground into meal
and flour to the value of over
$500,000; barrels valued at $23,
300;    300,000 shingles, 3,100,000

feet of boards and dimension tim-
ber, 2,000 doz. axe helves, besides
carriages sleighs, excelsior, doors,
sash, blinds, saws, bar soap, and
various other small mechanical
shops too numerous to mention.
The total horse water-power which
is improved in this village, is over
850; capital invested in manufac-
tories, $ 598,000; males employed,
408; females and children, 245;
amount annually paid for labor,
$ 248,000; value of goods annually
manufactured, $1,412,900.

There are fifteen or twenty
stores, of various kinds, two hotels,
four churches, two graded school-
houses, an academy, bank, insur-
ance, express, post, and various
other offices common to a large