65 CtXLTURE OF CARROTS. 



Experimental at lambing time, and should be cut, or they are subject 

 Arc„t":':f'° break their mouths. 



Carrots, Store pigs may be fattened on carrots only, and large 



hogs feed remarkably well, When fed with half corn and 

 half carrots. 



Heifers in calf, which require good keep and calve early, 

 thrive better on carrots and good oat straw, than on hay 

 only— one bushel of carrots per day— care must be takeu 

 not to give them too fearly ol- too many ; iii which case, the 

 calves are liable to overgrow. 



Weaned calves thrive well on this food ; a peck per day 

 is quite sufficient, more would increase the body too much. 



Milking co^vs give more milk on carrots and straw, than 

 on hay only. In all these instances their superiority is 

 more, comparatively speaking, than the diffetcnce of a car- 

 rot crop rated at one guinea pei load of forty bushels, to 

 the value of turnips on the same soil ; rating them as a 

 produce forborne consumption. 



One heaped bushel of carrots, therefore, is equal to I8lbs. 

 of hay. Admitting each cart-horse to consume this quan- 

 tity of hay for 120 da)s, it amounts to 2,l60lbs. the average 

 l)roduce of one acre of good pasture land. 



The same animal, if fed on cariots, with the addition of 

 the cut-straW provender, which is a substitute for corn, and 

 adds solidity to the carrots, will require only 120 bushels of 

 carrots, or three loads ; not half the produce of an acre 

 of arable land worth 3s. per acre. 



To this must be added the gieat supeiiority in point of 

 condition, which the cattle evince. Ihe latter method of 

 feeding With carrots and cut provender, is fully equal to 

 ISlbs. of hay and half a peck of oats to each horse. 



My object in presentiiig the above remarks, torihe con- 

 ;aideration of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, 

 i&c. &.C, is the hope of extending d most valuable branch 

 of Agriculture (which has long stood the test of experience) 

 wore generally throughout the kingdom ; and is respect- 

 fully submitted to them by their obedient servant, 



W, VVallis Mason. 

 Goodrett Lodge, near Warwick^ 

 Jan. 31, 1805. 



> To Charles Tai/lor, Fsq, 



