426 On t^e Culture of Carrots. 



of carrots, and 28 cwt. of hay: with Mr. Burrows's crops, this 

 is about one acre of the former, in another trial by the same 

 person, accurately conducted, by weighing alive, but no hay 

 given, the increased weight of the bullocks paid, beef at 9d. per 

 pound from 7 id. to Sd. per bushel of 54 lbs., and each two and 

 a half bushels per diem for the first 28 days, but no hay was 

 given. 



From the preceding minutes, it is sufficiently obvious, that 

 carrots may be safely relied on as a highly beneficial article for 

 fattening oxen ; and there is every reason to believe, that this 

 application is profitable. 



§ 3.— Cows. 

 The experiments which have been published on the result of 

 feeding cows with carrots, are few, and not detailed in the most 

 satisfactory manner ; but they are sufficient to prove, that the 

 food is excellent in relation to the condition of the stock, the 

 quantity of milk, and the flavour of the butter. Mr. BillL'ig was 

 highly satisfied with the effect. The result with Mr. Cope was 

 still more satisfactory, giving his cows two bushels per diem. 

 Mr. Onley's, by one bushel per diem, with oat straw, produce 

 6 lbs. per week of the finest butter in January ; if we reckon the 

 butter at 20c?. per lb., it is 8s. 4d. for seven bushels of carrots, 

 or \s. 2\d. per bushel. In Sussex they have been found superior 

 to potatoes. In Suffolk they are peculiarly beneficial for weaning 

 calves. From Cambray to Bouchaine, in Flanders, I found them 

 esteemed the best of all food for cows ; and it should be observed, 

 that they never give any bad flavour to milk. 



§ 4. — Sheep. 

 That carrots must be an excellent food for sheep, it would be 

 ridiculous to question : the only inquiry that merits attention is, 

 what they will pay for this food. Mr. Billing's flock did better 

 on this root, than ever he had experienced at the same season. 

 Mr. Cope was never distressed for sheep-food in Ap.il and May, 

 after he became a cultivator of carrots. Mr. Legrand, in Kent, 

 made a careful experiment on fattening wethers in 1770 ; twenty 

 ate a ton per week, and four cwt. of hay, which deducted, the 

 carrots paid 14*. per ton, and being fed on grass land for twenty 

 weeks, the improvement at a very low estimation was 3/., or 3^. 

 per ton : reckoning mutton in 1770 at 4d. per lb. the value of 

 carrots becomes 28?. per ton, mutton reckoned only at 8^/.; but 

 at 9d. the carrots would be worth 3l5. (yd.; at \0d. the value 

 would be 355.; and if the carrots be reckoned at 56 lbs. the bu- 

 shel, the last supposition makes them \Ojd. per bushel, exclusive 

 of the improvement of the grass. In 1780 I made an experi- 

 ment similar to that of Mr. Legrand, giving the roots to twenty- 



