WORCESTER COUNTY SOCIETY. 



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statement thereof, which is hereto annexed. It affords evidence 

 that carrots, hke onions, may be advantageously continued on 

 the same land, year after year. The land on which these suc- 

 cessful crops have been grown, before being taken up for a car- 

 rot crop, was, and had been for many years, a pasture, of which 

 brush and switch-grass had taken sole possession — the soil a 

 thin, gravelly loam, resting on gravel. It may be proper to 

 state, that the bushels mentioned in this account, are bushels 

 by measure, and not by weight. 



JOHN W. LINCOLN, Chairman. 



Harvey Dodge's Siaiemeiit. 



The land on which my carrots were raised, the present 

 season, contains, by measurement, half an acre and seven rods, 

 and is the same land on which I raised carrots and ruta bagas, 

 last year. The condition of the land, in 1847, was good; 16 

 loads of good stable manure were put on the half acre. The 

 product was 224 bushels carrots, and 110 of ruta bagas. 



The above described is the land on which my carrots have 

 been grown, the present season, and which I have entered for 

 the Society's premium, for two lots of one quarter acre each. 



Carrot Field — Dr. 

 1848. 



May 1, To 25 loads, of 25 bushels each, manure, $1 

 per load. 

 Carting and spreading same. 

 To ploughing same, 2 yoke oxen, 

 May 28, " '•' second time, . 



June 1, 1 lb. seed. 



Sowing same, with machine, 

 " 8, Hoeing before the carrots were up, 

 July 25, Labor, hoeing and weeding, worth 

 Aug. 20, Hoeing and weeding, to this date, 



