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bccaufe a great mafs of general and particular 

 experience tells them, that in the feeding of any 

 fort of cattle thofe plants will amply pay them 

 for any moderate expences. But if you recom- 

 mend carrots, they at once fay, What are they 

 worth? How will they pay? The fociety that offers 

 premiums for the cultivation, or the individual 

 who recommends it, ought to be able to anfwer 

 this queftion; and if they cannot do that, they 

 ought to gain the necefTary knowledge as the firfl 

 ftep towards diffufing the practice. 



The misfortune is, that the value remains yet 

 unafcertained ; from a general review of the ex- 

 periments before the publick, a fatisfactory deci- 

 five knowledge of this point is not to be gained. 

 As this is a circumftance of confiderable impor- 

 tance, it will not be improper to give it a flight 

 examination. 



The moft confiderable practice, and the only 

 one of common farmers, upon a large fcale, is 

 that of the fands in the neighbourhood of Wood- 

 bridge; unfortunately for afcertaining the value 

 of the root from their crops, the fale to the Lon- 

 don market always enters into their view in the 

 cultivation. The ftrait, clean roots are fold at 

 fix-pence per bufhel at the quays, upon the Wood- 

 bridge 



