70 WORCESTER COUNTY SOCIETY. 



Nov. 4, Harvesting and carting, . . . $12 00 



Interest on land, $200 per acre, . . 6 00 



|58 25 



Carrot Field — Cr. 



1848. 



Nov. 4, By one third manure back, for other crops, $8 33 

 " 266 bushels carrots, of 56 lbs., from first 



quarter, at 28 cents, . . . 74 48 



From second quarter acre, 10,940 lbs., sold 



in the field, at \ cent per lb., . . 54 70 



$137 51 



I believe it to be substantially true, that my crop, on the two 

 lots of one fourth acre each, (half acre,) was 12 tons, 918 lbs., 

 or, 25 tons, 838 lbs. to the acre. This, at $10 per ton, would 

 amount to $254 19, at the field. I have been very particular 

 in my accounts for this crop, as some of my particular friends 

 have thought such a crop could not be raised, or, if raised, was 

 not worth so much to feed out to a common stock. For my 

 own part, I should hardly know how to get my stock through 

 the winter, without some kind of roots. 



I manured my land one third higher this year, than in former 

 years, and my crop is in proportion. The labor has all been 

 reckoned by the day, and not by the month, and is much higher 

 than it cost. The hoeing and weeding was all done in the mid- 

 dle of the day, or when the sun was hot, and, consequently, 

 was reckoned by the hour. And I feel confident that my state- 

 ments have not been overrated in regard to weight and meas- 

 ure, nor in labor and other expenses. 



Sutton^ November 18, 1848. 



William S. Lincoln^ s Sialemeiit. 



The land, on which my crop of carrots grew, in the spring of 

 1847j would have been in good condition, had it been sufficiently 



