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Article LVIIL 



On the Culture of Carrots^ and the Rot in Sheep y 

 by a Gentleman near Norwich. 



[In a Letter to the Secretary.] 

 StR, 



T Thank you greatly for the two letters you 

 **■ tranfmitted to me in your laftj the one from 

 Mr. Billings LEY, on the culture, expences, and 

 produce of a crop of Carrots; the other containing 

 Mr. Pryce*s thought on the Rot in Sheep. 



On the firft fubjeft, as fomewhat informed by 

 having fometimes grown four or ?iVQ acres, never 

 lefs than one or two in every year, for a confider- 

 able time, I dare venture to aflure you, that Mr. 

 B*s ftatement of the expences incurred is, in the arti- 

 cles of ploughing, harrowing, carting home, and 

 fecuring, rather beyond the price 1 have ever paid 

 for the fame; and that he is not in any other of his 

 articles beneath the fulled price here, nor is his 

 produce greater than common, or what may be 

 cxpedled from fuch management} fo that it is both 

 as jufl: and accurate an account as I have met with. 

 The only objedion to it wbi<;h ftrikes me is, the 

 Qj2 heavy 



