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acre is therefore 5I. Fifty pounds weight of car- 

 rots are an ample allowance for a horfe a day,- ten 

 tons at that rate will lad three horfes one hundred 

 and fifty days, or five months. But thefe five 

 pounds laid out in oats at 16s. a quarter, will 

 purchafe little more than fix quarters, which will 

 lad three horfes, at two bufhels each per week, no 

 more than two months; which is a moft enormous 

 inferiority to the carrots. 



Thefe eftimates I do not offer as exactly correct; 

 I produce them only as hints to experimental 

 farmers, to convince them that no jufb apprehen- 

 fion of lofs can attend any trials on carrots, pro- 

 vided the foil be proper for them. 



I beg, gentlemen, that you will pardon the 

 imperfection of this flight fketch upon a fubject, 

 to exhauft which would demand a volume. If it 

 prove the means of inftigating others to give 

 fome attention to this very valuable article of 

 cultivation, my aim will be fully anfwered. 



I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, 

 Your obliged and devoted fervant, 



ARTHUR YOUNG- 



Bradfield-Hall) near Bury^ 

 November > 1781. 



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