On preserving Carrots. 291 
ward-bound shipping, which they now want; that by doing so 
will in some measure enable the merchant to have his return 
freight cheaper, and thus we do away with the idea of haying 
our islands dependent on the American States for food. We 
save an immense sum of money annually given to foreigners ; 
and to the man of humane feeling it must be a source of grati- 
fication, to see that by this mode the severe labour of the poor 
black is much lightened, his condition ameliorated ; and by.’ 
having less occasion for his labour, aiding to abolish that horrid 
traffic of the slave trade. We find a market never before disco- 
vered for our agricultural exertions, giving healthful and bene- 
ficial employment to many families at home and abroad, and a 
saving to the nation of at least five hundred thousand pounds 
annually. Cuar_es WHITLOW. 
To C. Taylor, M.D. Sec. 
A communication from H. B. Way, Esq. (printed in the same 
volume, and for which the Society voted the Ceres silver medal,) 
on the preservation of carrots during winter, corroborates the above 
plan for preserving roots. The following is the substance of Mr, 
Way’s communication :— 
His carrots were sown broadcast in the usual way, in his garden, 
March 23d, 1814, and thinned out as wanted for family use ; 
and on the 20th of August following they were all dug up, the 
greens and tops of the roots cut off and cleared from the earth 
that adhered to them, and were immediately put in a dry cask, 
first laying a layer of earth on the bottom of the cask, and then 
a layer of carrots and earth alternately, till the whole were put in. 
The cask being covered was then placed in a dry cellar, and re- 
mained there till sent to the Society in March 1815, Carrots 
preserved in this way are vastly superior to carrots that remain 
in the groundtill the latter end of September or October, and then 
taken up and preserved ; but they require nearly double the time 
in boiling that carrots do when immediately taken out of the 
ground, 
It appeared to the committee, on minute examination, that the 
means adopted by Mr. Way for preserving carrots, is fully adequate 
to the purpose; and that where an opportunity offers of procur- 
ing proper casks, carrots may be preserved for many months in 
this mode, either for exportation or home use, in a perfectly sound 
state. 
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