204 WORCESTER SOCIETY. 



CREDIT. 



By 184 bushels, 28 lbs. carrots, at 25 cts. per 



bushel, $46 14 



By one-half the manure, ----- 6 25 



$52 39 



Upon the one-quarter acre, which yielded only 103 bushels, 

 the net profit, without any credit of manure to next crop, was 

 three dollars and twenty-five cents. 



The chairman of the committee will recollect the " Royal 

 Blue Heart Seedling Potatoes^'' exhibited at the society's show, 

 for 1848, by Rev. Mr. Richards, of New England Village, 

 Grafton. Having procured a small quantity of these potatoes, 

 I planted them this spring, upon the turning or head land of 

 my corn ground, next to where I grew the carrots, before re- 

 ported. When digging these this fall, I noticed the yield and 

 measured the ground — from two drills, twenty-four feet long, 

 each, I harvested two barrels of potatoes, hardly one too small 

 for the table, and many, of the very largest size. From a piece 

 of ground sixty feet, averaging twenty-three feet, the above in- 

 cluded, I dug six barrels, heaped measure. This potato, I 

 think, (aside from its color, which is very dark throughout,) 

 among the most valuable of the many varieties cultivated. 



Worcester, November ^th, 1849. 



William A. Wheelei-'s Statem,ent. 



I herewith hand you a statement of the expenses and pro- 

 duct of carrots upon one acre of land, on my farm in Worces- 

 ter, during the year 1849, and which are entered for premium. 



1849. CARROT FIELD. DR. 



May 16, To labor of carting and spreading ma- 

 nure, 8 days, - - - - $ 7 33 

 " To labor of team 4f days, - - 4 75 

 " 16, 29, " " team ploughing 4 days, - 4 00 



