72 WORCESTER COUNTY SOCIETY. 



One third manure back for next crop, . . $3 86 



191 bushels of carrots, 56 lbs. at 25 cts., . . 47 75 



$51 61 



I say 191 bushels of carrots of 56 lbs. each. This product 

 was obtained as follows : — The cart was taken to the field, the 

 carrots, which had been pulled the day before, were topped and 

 put into baskets, — each basket weighed by itself, (its weight set 

 down,) and emptied, till no more carrots could be heaped upon 

 the cart. In this manner, 40 bushels were weighed, — and, sub- 

 sequently, the cart filled in the same manner, till the whole pro- 

 duct was housed. By the bushel, of 56 lbs., the cart (a one 

 horse cart) would hold, heaped till no more could lay upon it, 

 but 17| bushels. There were 11 loads. But in actual ad- 

 measurement, as baskets are ordinarily filled in the field, 

 (heaped till no more w^ould remain, though not placed in the 

 basket with any particular care,) there were 223 bushels — as- 

 certained by averaging the whole number of baskets actually 

 weighed, and multiplying by the total number of baskets. 



It will be seen, therefore, by this instance, that the tendency 

 of the society's requirement, that each bushel should weigh 56 

 lbs., is to diminish the actual crop, when compared with crops 

 raised in other places. To satisfy myself more thoroughly, I 

 packed a basket as close as was possible — heaped it like the 

 others, and I obtained but 57 lbs. weight, less the weight of the 

 basket, 3| lbs. ; so that, with careful packing, I doubt whether 

 a bushel of carrots can be made to weigh 56 lbs. The weight 

 of the bushel, obtained by weighing some 46 or 47 baskets, and 

 averaging their weights, was, in this instance, 48^ lbs. There 

 is an intimation, in Stephen's Book of the Farm, when speaking 

 of this crop, that 42 lbs. is the standard weight. The subject 

 is of no consequence, except when our crops are placed in com- 

 parison with those of other places, where the standard weight 

 may be less. 



