CULTURE OF CARROTS. ^l 



ing up, is just before the fibrous roots begin to shoot in the 



spring; at which period the vegt table becomes less nutritive, instructions for 



at the same time injurious to the hind. tte Cuitujc of 



By these attentions \ have invariably found the cultivatioa 

 of carrots extremely beneficial to the land, and not unfre- 

 quently the value of the crop equfil to the fee simple of it. 

 The greatest produce I ever remember was eighteen loads 

 per acre, forty heaped bushels to the load ; yet I have heard 

 of much larger crops. 



Worn-out ploughed lands are renewed by the intermix- 

 lure of fresh soil occasioned by the deep ploughing; and 

 the proof is visible in many succeeding crops of corn, 

 grasses, &c. 



The same land will. produce very jfood crops of carrots for 

 years in succession; but in this in>tance manure becomes 

 jnecessary. I hey are taken up vviih a narrow spade, which 

 the labourer strikes with one hand into the ground, press- ^ 



Jng it bideways at the same time; he draws the root with 

 the other, throwing it to the heap, where sits his wife and 

 child 1 en to cut off the tops : the tops are left and spread a» 

 manure to the land. 



Expences of Labour. 



s. d. 



Weeding varies from 5s. to 10s per acre, average 7 6 



First Hoeing 7 



Second do 5 6 



Taking up per load, and topping 1 2 



Observing these prices, it is necessary to remark, the la- 

 bourers, in dear seasons, have an allowance for flour. 



To every single man one stone of flour per week, the 

 master paying the additional price above two shillings per 

 stone. 



To a man and his wife one stone and a half per week, 

 and half a stone per week to every additional child under 

 twelve years old, at which time they are deemed capable of 

 earning their own bread. 



By the introduction of this jadicious plan, the labourer 

 shares the benefit of that grain which his own industry had 

 helj)ed to cultivate, and feels but in a small uegree the op- 

 pression 



