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their carrots worth any thing; it will appear how 

 un fettled the real value is. 



For inftance: Mr. Stovin by fattening hogs 

 makes 4I. per ton, and Sir John Mill il. 6s. but 

 Mr. Edmund Burke, at Beconsfield, could not 

 make his hogs fatten at all on them; and fome 

 neighbours of mine have found them fit only, as 

 they exprefs it, to fcour hogs to death, inftead of 

 fattening; yet Mr. Le Grand, of Afh, has fold 

 threefcore porkers, moft delicately fatted (that is 

 his term) upon them. 



When accounts fo extremely contradictory are 

 before the publick, I am furely juftified in avert- 

 ing that the value of carrots remains yet unafcer- 

 tained. It is true, I am much inclined to give 

 great credit to the accuracy, knowledge, and other 

 circumstances, with which Mr. Moody appeared to 

 me to deduce his valuation, which is alfo confirmed 

 by fevcral other refpeclable authorities; but ftill, 

 as the experiments, upon which any of thefe gen- 

 tlemen founded their valuations, were not often 

 repeated, and under different circumstances, we 

 muft not confider the refult as perfectly decifive. 



No trial could be more completely conducted 

 than Mr. Lc Grand's upon wethers; but there 



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