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twenty dollars. After raking the ground, I then planted it in 

 rows with long orange carrot seed, and finished gathering the 

 crop November 9. Value of labor, forty dollars. The yield 

 was about twenty tons. I have weighed and sold, or otherwise 

 disposed of, thirty-nine thousand six hundred and twelve 

 pounds, which, at fifty-five pounds per bushel, give seven 

 hundred and twenty bushels and twelve pounds. 



Hamilton, November 13, 1854. 



WORCESTER. 



Report of the Committee. 



The Committee of the Worcester Agricultural Society on 

 Root Crops have attended to their duty. The work has not 

 been very tedious. Three entries only were made to the sec- 

 retary for premiums, and those exclusively of carrots — no 

 entries for potatoes, turnips, or any other root crops having 

 been made, owing, probably, to the potato rot for years past, 

 and the severe drought the latter part of the past summer and 

 fall. The committee deeply regret that their duties were so 

 light that they are obliged to report so small a number of en- 

 tries on the carrot crop in the large county of Worcester, and 

 hope that in future a much larger number will be filed with the 

 secretary, not merely to compete for small premiums, but to 

 give light and information to Worcester County and to the 

 world, through their statement of particulars in the different 

 experiments in the cultivation of the carrot crop, the most im- 

 portant of all root crops since the appearance of the potato 

 disease. The three competitors who made returns to the sec- 

 retary were Harvey Dodge, of Sutton, William T. Merrifield 

 and Samuel Perry, of Worcester. A day was appointed for 

 the examination of the carrot fields entered for examination ; 

 but the chairman soon received notice that one of the commit- 

 tee, the Hon. John Brooks, of Princeton, was absent on duty as 

 one of a committee from Massachusetts to the United States 

 Cattle Show. On the appointed day the other two of the com- 

 mittee carefully examined the three lots of carrots aforesaid 

 by digging them up in different parts of the fields, where, stand- 



