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arc two circumftances which make it doubtful 

 whether his carrots had entirely fair play. The 

 fheep appear to have been put lean to them; 

 whereas it is a fact well known, that if they are 

 not half fat when put to turnips, no profit will 

 refult: Qinr, if it be not nearly the fame with 

 carrots? He gave them alfo as much fine hay 

 as they would eat : perhaps the fheep will not pay 

 for this; — the Norfolk practice with turnips is 

 directly againfl: it. 



Upon the whole, we muft confider the informa- 

 tion before the publick rather as matter of en- 

 couragement to proceed, than that explicit proof 

 which prudent and inquifitive cultivators will be 

 apt to demand. 



While this remains the cafe, the greateft fervice 

 that can be done the publick in relation to carrots, 

 is to form various experiments with the greaterl 

 accuracy, in order to afcertain their real value per 

 ton. What an individual can do in this line is 

 trifling, when compared with the decifion that 

 would refult, gentlemen, from your taking it up 

 with that fpirit which feems to animate all your 

 undertakings; and as you have a farm for the 

 purpofe of experiments, this would not be a dif- 

 ficult one to execute. But whether you attend hy 



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