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your officers to the conduct of fuch trials, whether 

 you incite others by premiums to it, or whether 

 any of your correfpondcnts attempt it, permit me 

 to obferve, that there are one or two circumftances 

 that fhould not be forgotten in the conduct of it. 



j/?. If fheep are fattened, the carrots to be only 

 dug up and left in the field, and the fheep to be 

 immediately penned within hurdles upon them; 

 topping, cleaning, and packing up are expenfive, 

 perhaps more fo than can be paid by fheep; and 

 the land lofes an ample manuring for barley, of 

 which farmers know the great value in the cafe of 

 turnips; the foil muft however be quite dry. If 

 dirt adheres, they muft be carried to a grafs field. 



idly. If oxen are fattened, the carrots to be laid 

 up and given in ftalls, with good hay in the racks. 



-$dly. Whether oxen or fheep are the flock, 

 they mould be half fat when put to carrots. 



^thly. Whether oxen, fheep, or hogs, are fed, 

 they fhould be weighed alive when they begin the 

 carrots, and alfo when fat; and the value fhould 

 be taken when put up by the very beft judges in 

 the neighbourhood. The -price bought or fold 

 fhould not always be trufled to. Very good or 



