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rivaled for 4I. per acre, left on the ground for 

 p. Suppofe the crop only two bufhels at 701b. 

 each per rod, three hundred and twenty per acre, 

 or ten tons; it will readily be agreed fuch a pro- 

 duce is very low to calculate upon, fmcc twenty 

 tons are common among carrot cultivators. It 

 appears from Mr. Le Grand's experiments, that a 

 wether worth 2I. 5s. eats 1 61b. of carrots per day, 

 and 41b. of hay: Dropping the hay, and calcu- 

 lating for fheep of lefs than half that fizc, (which 

 are much more common) it will be perhaps an 

 ample allowance to ailign them ialb. of carrots a 

 If they are (as they ought to be) half fat 

 when put up, they will be completely fattened in 

 one hundred days. At this rate twenty wethers 

 will in one hundred days eat eleven tons, or very 

 little more than one moderate acre.* Now, gen- 

 tlemen, let it be remembered that it is a good acre 

 of turnips which will fatten eight fuch wethers, the 

 common Norfolk calculation ; from which it ap- 

 pears that one acre of carrots is in this ufe of 

 more worth than two of turnips. 



Further: Let us fuppofe horfes fed with them 

 inftead of oats; to top, cart, and pack up ten 

 tons of carrots, I know may be done for 20s.; an 



• The late very ingenious Mr. J. W. Baker, found that fat fheep 

 of aolb. a quarter would eat aolb. of turnips a day. 



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