r *85 d 



foon as the beans are off, the turnips may be 

 omitted. I am, your's, &c. 



B S d, Herts, B. K. 



May 14, 1782. 



Article XXX. 



Vbe Value of Carrots afcertained; — 'with fome 

 Obfervations on the Premiums offered by the 

 Society in 1782. 



Gentlemen, 



HAVING given a recital of my trial of carrots 

 in a preceding letter, I fhall at prefent con- 

 fine myfeif to the point of afcertaining their value, 

 which I have already obferved to be fo undecided 

 a queftion. 



Among other ufes, my crop of 1780 was ap- 

 plied partly to finifhing the fatting of fome wether 

 lambs, that had had the .fommer's grafs. I had 

 twenty-fix of them which ought to have been fet 

 at Michaelmas, but my food coming Ihort, they 

 were not in the autumn faleable to a butcher. I 

 had fome confidence in carrots, but I wanted 

 them for my horfes, and I tried various butchers 



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