WORCESTER SOCIETY. 189 



It will be perceived that the tops of the carrots have been 

 sold as high as three dollars per ton delivered in the field, for 

 the purpose of manufacturing a blue dye as a substitute for 

 woad ; this adds to the credit side of the account of that crop ; 

 but whether it may not be more profitable for the farmer to feed 

 them to his stock, is a question that every grower will determine 

 for himself. The harvesting is at a season of the year, when the 

 feed of the pasture is usually short, and cattle are fond of the 

 carrot top. It is believed that the purchaser for the manufac- 

 ture of this dye can afford to pay a higher price. By the sev- 

 eral statements, it appears that the number of bushels of roots 

 per acre, is as follows : — 



Of carrots, on land of Benj. N. Child, 924 — 50 lbs. per bushel. 



" " Charles White, 798^ " 



" " Harvey Dodge, 529i " 



" " Wm. S. Lincoln, 471 '• 



Of beets, " Harvey Dodge, 320 " 



Of rutabaga," Benj. N. Child, 828 " 



No entry was made of potatoes. That root has suffered the 

 past season most severely from the blight, many farmers har- 

 vesting far less number of bushels than they planted. A rem- 

 edy for this disease appears not yet to have been discovered. 



JOHN W. LINCOLN, Chairman. 



Harvey Dodge's Statement. 



I herewith hand you a statement of the expense and product 

 of carrots upon one acre and seventy-two rods of land, on my 

 farm in Sutton, during the year 1850, and which are entered 

 for premium. 



1850. CARROT FIELD. 



DR. 



May 13, To 52 loads, of 25 bushels each, manure, $52 00 



" 18, " carting and spreading same, - - 10 00 



" 20, " team ploughing, first time, - - 2 00 



June 5, " " <' second do., - - 2 00 



" " " harrowing and preparing ground, - 2 50 



" 8, " sowing seed, ----- i 50 



