WORCESTER SOCIETY. 195 



Carrot Field. Dr. 



1849. 



May 1. To ploughing, and carting of cornstalks, $1 00 



" 20. " twenty-five loads of manure, - 25 00 



carting and spreading the same, - 3 00 



ploughing the same with two yoke oxen, 1 00 



" second time, - - 1 00 



" and harrowing, &c., - 1 50 



three-fourths pound hay seed and sowing 



with machine, - - - - - 1 25 



June 15. To hoeing between rows before carrots were up, 2 00 



July 3-4. " boy's labor, weeding, 



" 24. " " " " and hoeing, 



Aug. 24. " hoeing and weeding to this time, 

 Nov. 3. " labor of harvesting, carting and housing, 

 Interest on land at $200 per acre, 



'^ 28. 

 June 6. 



Carrot Field. 



1849. 



Nov. 5. By one-third of manure back for next crop, ! 



" " " 365 one-third bushels carrots at 28 cents, 

 Weight was 20-440 at f 10 per ton on the 



field, which price was received. 



$110 52 



Profit, - $52 77 



The forty-five rods of land on which my second lot of car- 

 rots grew the present season, is separate from the first lot ; is a 

 deep yellow loam of good quality. The quality of the land in 

 1848, good, having been to grass for seven years. May 20, 

 1848, manure of good quality at the rate of forty loads per acre, 

 was spread on the grass and turned under eight inches. Corn 

 was planted, the product was sixty-five bushels to the acre^ 

 besides a large growth of turnips. 



