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ISIO, fed ten horses on 70 lbs. per diem, saving all the oats, 

 and much of the hay usually given; they paid l()|rf. per bushel 

 of 60 lbs. ; oats being at 32f . per quarter. In the winter of 

 ISl 1, he fed 30 horses on this root during 210 days, giving two 

 bushels a day to each horse, and being uncommonly hard worked 

 they had a small allowance of hay in the night: the value saved 

 in hay and oats, was equal to lOic?. per bushel, hay being at 4l. 

 per ton, and oats at 43s. per quarter. It is worth observing, that 

 the result of Mr. Burrows's experiments affords an exact confirm- 

 ation of the facts which I laid before the public 30 years before. 

 One caution should here be added : if it is necessary to wash 

 the roots before giving them to the horses, they should be kept 

 till absolutely dry before feeding. 



§ 2. — Fattening Beasts. 



In 1763, Mr. Billing fattened 33 beasts on this root, which 

 paid him to his satisfaction. Mr. Cope, of Nottinghamshire, 

 above 40 years ago, found the fattening of oxen and cows to be 

 a very profitable application of this crop. But i)y far the most 

 important experiments that have ever been published on this ap- 

 plication of carrots, were those by Mr. Moody, of Retford : he 

 had been a butcher, who paid a minute attention to the business : 

 he built a most complete ox-house, containing 26 stalls, for re- 

 gularly fattening on oil-cake; but in 1776, being disappointed 

 of cake, and in great danger of his beasts losing flesh, he thought 

 of trying carrots, of which he had a crop, and to his aniazenicnt, 

 his oxen did not go backward, but fattened so well, and paid 

 such a value for the roots, that he continued the practice for 

 several vears, to his great emolument : half an acre and half a 

 rood of carrots saved two tons IS cwt. of cake, paying 20s. per 

 ton for the carrots: the particulars of his trials are too detailed 

 to quote here ; but the carrot farmer would do well to read them 

 carefullv. Mr. Linn, in the carrot district of Suffolk, in 17S-I, 

 fattened bullocks on them to late in the spring, to great profit. 

 Mr. Kirbv, of the same county, considered this ixs the most be- 

 neficial of all applications. Mr. Cotton also fattened ten or 

 twelve bullocks everv vear on this fnod, to great profit ; he has 

 substituted them for oil-cake without the least injury to the 

 beasts. Mr. Fuller, his neighbour, has long practised it v.'itli 

 great success ; he finds the oxen eat, according to their size, fr()n> 

 one to three bushels per diem : but others found that large beasts 

 would eat five or six bushels a day : another gave tiuce bushels 

 per diem. With an Essex farmer, four acres fattened 15 i)ul- 

 locks. Ill ISO!), Mr. Binrows fattened four (iailoway bullocks, 

 which had for a part of the time (16 weeks) a bushel and a half 

 allowed dailv; hay also given: they ate in l(» weeks 796 bushels 



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