6^ CXJLTURE OF CARIIOTS, 



pression of the limes ; the interest of tke master and the 



lr>fti'!^o'^"for st'^^^"^ becomes reciprocal, for the price of labour continues 



the Culture ot nearly at the usual standard; had it been otherwise, the 



*"*"*** farm?r must have suffered when his commodities became of 



less value. 



The annual rent of those lands on which carrots are 

 generally grown, is from 5s. to 20s. per acre; but I have 

 invariably found the proSt by far the greatest when the bes,t 

 soil has been made use of :— 



A good crop on land worih 5s. per acre .... 7 loads, 

 , «.««-»_ — — on land worth 10s. per acre ... 9 ^o. 



■ ■ — on land worth 15s, per acre ... 11 do. 



On the best land, as I before remarked .... 18 do, ,, " 



:i*i^'. 'jili. 



The advantage in preferring good land is obvious, tlie 

 chief expences being nearly the same as on poor soil ; the 

 additional labour consists chiefly in taking up. 



Carrots are sometimes sown when the land has received 

 but a single furrow, a sure badge of indolence. The an- 

 nexed Drawing is to prove the necessity of deep ploughing, 

 by means of the double furrow. Fig, I. is the shape and 

 comparative size of a carrot grown on a single furrow ; 

 the earth below where the soil was stirred, acting as a re- 

 pellent, checks the growth of tha root, and causes it to 

 shoot laterally. 



Fig, 2, is the comparative growth and shape of a carrot 

 grown on the double furrow.* On all soils which are a- 

 dapted to this branch of husbandry, the first ploug^hing 

 may be done by a pair of horses abreast ; the lower, or 

 double furrow, by three horses abreast. The nearer the 

 cattle are to the work, the greater the purchase ; they la« 

 bour with greater spirit in sociable pairs than in a drone- 

 like string at length. 



It is a common custom with the cultivators of carrots, to 

 raise their own seed : it requires little attention, and the 



. * We have not copied the Author's drawings. They shew that the 

 carrot In the deep furrow shoots downwards to ^ greater distance, so as.to 

 ke half as much rccve hi size thaa the other, Editor, 



crop 



