WORCESTER SOCIETY. 169 



James Estabrook, Wm. S. Lincoln, and James F. Thorndike, 

 having omitted to lodge with the Recording Secretary of the 

 society a written statement in relation to their crops of car- 

 rots, are excluded by the rules of the society from receiving a 

 premium, however much your committee may desire to bestow 

 one upon them. 



Yet we cannot refrain from speaking of their fields, thereby 

 showing that the carrot culture is not on the wane, but is 

 rather ascending in the estimation of the community as a 

 field crop. 



Sheriff Estabrook's carrots were on his farm in the south- 

 west part of Boylston, of which he has recently come in pos- 

 session. The soil on which his carrots grew is a deep, rich 

 loam, and is adapted to the growth of any crop usually culti- 

 vated by the farmer. His carrots gave evident signs that they 

 had not been neglected in the bestowment of all care neces- 

 sary to insure him a handsome crop. 



At the time of examination (Oct. 5) the tops were remark- 

 ably vigorous and of heavy growth. The bottoms were of 

 good size, and promised a good harvest. They were rather 

 thick in the rows to obtain roots of very large size, yet he might 

 have as much weight as though he had thinned them in the 

 row. The committee very much regret that Mr. E. did not 

 communicate to them his bill of particulars — he would not 

 have lost anything by so doing. 



On entering Mr. Lincoln's lot, the soil of which is rather 

 light, sandy loam, the committee entertained some fearful ap- 

 prehensions for the crop from the appearance of the tops of the 

 carrots ; the drought, followed by the blight, had made what 

 was above ground appear a little less inviting than were those 

 of Mr. Estabrook, though the committee thought the bottoms 

 were not inferior. Mr. Lincoln is an old cultivator of this 

 valuable root, and fi'om many years experience in feeding the 

 same to his stock, knows, in a good degree, how to appreciate 

 its worth. 



Mr. Thorndike's effort this season was an experiment with 

 him, it being his first trial 



His soil is a deep, black loam, with clay subsoil. The lot on 

 which his carrots were, was with great expense, during the last 

 season, cleared of a large quantity of large rocks and stumps, 

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