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period, fo mellow for the plough, as to form a 

 feed -bed for barley, equal to any fallow tilth. 



I apprehend too, the land p7'oper for barley, im- 

 mediately after a vegetable crop, is well fuited to the 

 produce of carrots. If this apprehenfion be well 

 founded, (and furcly, even on conjed;ure, in 2i /mall 

 fcale it merits a general trial on foils tolerably light) 

 the horfcs in fuch places might, for the winter half 

 year, be maintained for the Ihongefl: work without 

 oats, and the foil affigned to that crop be thus am- 

 ply prepared for the more mercantile one of barley* 



I mention only horfes, becaufe for them a fub- 

 ftitute IS chiefly wanted. For other cattle, we have 

 a variety of winter" vegetables, but none (as far as 

 my fmall trials extend) that wear the foil fo little, 

 prepare it for the following crop fo well, and are 

 fo nutritive and fweet in their efi^edls, as carrots. 

 The few that I have this year, and which (as they 

 fufl:ained but little injury from the frofl of laft year) 

 will probably remain in the ground till it is necef^ 

 fary to plough it up for oats, were, from the drought 

 of laft fpring, fo imperfed a plant, that, after 

 ftrong harrowing, I fowed over them a crop of 

 turnips, and have now in this mode a better piece 

 of this herbage, with the additional chance of the 

 carrocs, than mofl: of my neighbours. 



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