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Article XXXVIII. 



On the "Profit of Carrots and Cabbages. 



Sir, 



SINCE I received your lad favour, the weather 

 has been fo very inclement, that I had it not 

 in my power till yefterday to afcertain with any 

 degree of precifion the weight or value of my 

 crops of carrots and cabbages. In all my farm- 

 ing experiments, I would wifli to avoid as much 

 as poflible all exaggerating ideas of the value of 

 the produce; and for this reafon I felected fuch 

 parts of the field as were neither the beji nor the 

 worji of the crop. They were weighed with great 

 exa&nefs, and can be attefled (if defired) on oath. 



With refpecT: to the former crop, (I mean of 

 carrots) you will find the expence attending this 

 method of cultivation greatly reduced, when com- 

 pared with the crop for which I received the So- 

 ciety's premium in the year 1779; and yet the 

 produce per acre was very little inferior. I never 

 remember to have met in any Author with expe- 

 riments to prove how far carrots may be profit- 

 ably applied to the feeding of fheep in the month* 

 of March and April. To that purpofe I intend 



devoting 



