44 Value of Carrots. [Jan., 



The imports into Great Britain, up to the middle of August, this 

 year, were 584,400,000 lbs. against 462,400,000 lbs. last year ; and 

 the imports into the chief ports of the continent of Europe are 

 442,000,000 lbs. against 454,000,000 lbs. last year. The stock on 

 hand in Great Britain is 238,200,000 lbs. against 164,200,000 lbs. at 

 the same time last year ; and the stocks at the chief ports of Europe 

 48,100,000 lbs. against 75,700,000 lbs. last year. It will be seen 

 that England has in stoi'e nearly three times the overplus necessary 

 to make up the deficiency on the continent. 



The United States is a great Sugar market, and a correspondent 

 at Salem, who is well versed in the statistics of commerce, sends us 

 the following statement of brown sugar entered the United States in 

 two years; namely, in 1853, 456,510,627 lbs., costing $14,639,776, 

 on which the duties were $4,391,929 ; in 1854, the imports into the 

 United States were 449,520,309 lbs., costing $13,406,996, the duties 

 on which were 14,622,092. 



Now, in 1856, the sugar costs double, and the duties under the ad 

 valorem rate are double also. Government does not want the money, 

 and certainly when the Louisiana sugar crop is so almost entirely 

 cut off that the planters have none to sell, we ought not to be subject- 

 ed to double duties, but are rather entitled to have it on the free list. 



Molasses now pays nine cents a gallon duty, under the ad valorem 

 tariff, instead of five cents, as under the specific duty of 1842. 



Art. XV.— value OF CARROTS. 



Carrots are very excellent fodder for horses that have been kept 

 long on highly carbonaceous food, and whose digestive organs may 

 be out of order in consequence of their constant activity in reducing 

 meal and oats into the elements of animal nutrition. With a fair 

 allowance of carrots, ground oats, and sweet hay, a horse will enjoy 

 good health and spirits, have a loose hide, shining coat and healthy 

 lungs. A daily allowance of carrots should always be furnished to 

 horses subject to indigestion, and whose food often runs into fer- 

 mentation, inducing diarrhoea, or a lax, washy state of the bowels. 

 Carrots furnish an acid called pectic, which possesses the curious 



