56 



WORCESTER SOCIETY. 



One Acre of Land. 



Dr. 



1843. To 61 days labor, at 5s., $50 83 

 " 6£ " lproxen, 5a., 5 42 

 " 1 " 2 horses, . 1 50 

 " Manure, . . .18 00 

 " Sowing seed, . . 3 00 



1844. To 77 days labor, at 5s., $24 17 

 " I7i " lproxen, 5s., 14 58 

 " 12 cords manure, . 36 00 

 " 3£ " compost, . 10 50 



1845. To 79 days labor, at 



5s. 6d., . . $72 42 



To 12 days, 1 pr oxen, 



5s. 6d., . . . 11 00 

 To 2 days, man and team, 3 33 

 " 13 cords compost from 



yard, at $2 50, . . 32 50 

 To 4d cords manure, at 



$3 50, 15 75 



$78 75 



125 25 



135 00 



By 361 bushels car- 

 rots, 25c, $90 25 



Or. 



$90 25 



By 710 bushels car- 

 rots, 25c, $177 50 



177 50 



By 736 bushels car- 

 rots, 25c, $184 00 



(206 bush, on J acre.) 



184 00 



Statement of D. Waldo Lincoln. 



My crop of carrots, entered for the Society's premium, was 

 raised upon one fourth of an acre of land, by measurement, and 

 the produce was 177£ bushels, of 56 pounds each, or at the rate 

 of 710 bushels to the acre. 



The land produced a crop of oats in the summer of 1843, and 

 in the fall was laid down, according to what is called the new 

 system of husbandry, but without a top dressing of manure. 

 The seed did not come up well, and all that did, was utterly 

 killed by the following winter, and the experiment was an entire 

 failure. Finding, in the summer of 1844, that the grass was 

 coming to nothing, the land was again ploughed, and sowed 

 with buckwheat. In the spring of 1845, 33 loads of strong 

 slaughter-house manure, and 20 loads of good stable manure, 

 were spread upon 150 rods of land. It was then three times 

 ploughed, twice with a common, and once with a subsoil 

 plough. The seed was sowed the last week in May. The 

 carrots were hoed the middle of June, and again the first week 



