On the Culture of Carrots. 417 



the ground, and being well prepared for by the tillage, and ma- 

 nuring given for the turnips, and the soil being further enriched 

 by eating them on the ground by sheep, the land is found to be 

 in high order after the barley, for sowing the carrots. The fol- 

 lowing courses of crops will thus be found extremely advan- 

 tageous : 



for four or five years successively on the same land ; the same 

 practice has also occurred in Scotland. They have been often 

 sown, and with great success, on the first ploughing of a layer 

 which has remained from three to seven years. An excellent 

 farmer in Suffolk, who has very poor sand, sows them for the 

 first crop, on breaking up ray-grass layers three years old, get- 

 ting clean and good crops. 



A common error has been, that of sowing them after vvheat> 

 which is very bad management: that crop is so long on the ground, 

 as usually to leave a stubble abounding much more with weeds 

 than barlev, and consequently much increasing the expense of 

 hoeing the carrots. Mr. Burrows, of Norfolk, registers crops 

 sown on a wheat stubble, which followed pease, and those pease 

 succeeding a two-years* layer : in such a course, we cannot be 

 surprised that the result was a multitude of weeds, and a neces- 

 sity of eating these weeds by sheep. 



Chap. IV. — Tillage. 



The practice of the cultivators of this root in Suffolk, esta- 

 blished after long experience, is, to plough but once, immediatelv 

 before the sowing : they get what depth they can, by one plough 

 following another in the same furrow ; a work much belter 



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