166 WORCESTER SOCIETY. 



Last spring, four of what I esteemed the best varieties were 

 set out in rows three feet apart for seed ; and I was completely 

 successful in changing the color and form by mixing the seed 

 in the blossom. You will recollect the crop of corn growing 

 when your committee were here, on about one and a half acres, 

 below the road. On this lot, and of this variety we harvested 

 the 1st of November, over six hundred bushels, and the quality 

 cannot be improved for table use. 



I cannot retract anything I said last year, in relation to the 

 traffic and the importance of importing our turnip seed, being 

 satisfied from longer experience, that if we wish to raise good 

 crops of good roots, we must have good seed from good sorts, 

 and not that produced by an annual, when it should have come 

 from a biennial. 



Sutton. Nov. 18, 1851. 



William S. Lincoln's Statement. 



Below you will find an apology for not rendering to you a 

 full report of the carrot and beet crop entered by me for the 

 society's premiums. On the 12th of May I commenced plough- 

 ing for these crops ; and on the 25th, the manure being ploughed 

 in, and the soil thoroughly pulverized and hand raked, the seed 

 was sowed. 



The 2d day of June, previous to the appearance of the young 

 plants, the ground between the rows was worked over by a 

 light harrow, made for the purpose. The successive weedings 

 were done in a seasonable time, and the labor of hoeing and 

 weeding completed on the 30th of July. 



Up to this period there was promise of a superior crop. The 

 distance between the rows was from twelve to fourteen inches, 

 the plants were thick, the foliage vigorous and of a deep green. 



The society's books show that at this date my entry was 

 made. Had I deferred the entry a few days I should not have 

 made it all, as, within a fortnight from this time, the whole ap- 

 pearance of the crop changed. The deep green of the carrot 

 tops was changed to a yellow and then to a brown color. The 

 crop was blighted; and in a few days the tops decayed and 

 hardly a green leaf was visible. The field bore this burnt ap- 

 pearance during the continuance of the drouth. 



