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six wethers on dry grass in hurdled pens : I attended the trial 

 myself very carefully, and the carrots paid 4d. per bushel; the 

 twenty-six eating, on an average, four bushels per diem, and 

 manuring well an acre of land. In 17S0 the price of mutton 

 continued at 4d. per lb. which ascertains the value of carrots to 

 be lOd. per bushel, when mutton is lOflf. per lb. 



§ 5.— Hogs. 

 In the application of carrots to feeding lean swine, I know irnt 

 that any doubts have ever been expressed ; but the trials published 

 relation to fattening are not equally decisive, the result having 

 been somewhat contradictory. I\Ir. Turner and Mr. Hewitt, 

 both of Yorkshire, fattened porkers successfully. Mr. Ray, of 

 Suffolk, failed entirely in the attempt. Mr. Cope fattened hogs 

 of size on these roots, with entire success. The same result has 

 been found at Woodbridge. Mr. Legrand, of Kent, fattened 

 sixty porkers, the meat being excellent and delicate. Mr. Burke 

 in 1770 (afterwards the celebrated and right honourable states- 

 man) informed me, when I was with him at Beaconsfield, that 

 in two successive years he entirely failed in the attempt to fatten. 

 The same was the result with Mr. Baker, of Ireland. In 1779, 

 Mr. Billingsley ascertained the value, thus applied, to be 3^. a 

 sack. Mr. Burrows, of Norfolk, finds them of great use in sup- 

 porting large herds of swine ; and by that means converts much 

 straw into excellent dung. Cabl)ages, Swedish turnips, and car- 

 rots, being compared for store-pigs, by weighing alive, to and 

 from the food, the carrots much exceeded the other articles. 

 There are two circumstances which demand particular attention 

 relative to fattening this animal on carrots: first, the distinction 

 of breed has an extraordinary effect; the Chinese race has paid 

 me a fair profit on various articles of food, while other breeds 

 feeding on the same substances have been attended with loss ; 

 and there are other breeds much superior to those which abound 

 in some districts; this may evidently occasion a variation in 

 results. Secondly, carrots are far superior in fattening when 

 used in the spring, to what they are in autumn ; the more dry 

 and withered they are the more nourishing; and it is the same 

 with potatoes. Of their great utiHty for lean swine, there can 

 be no doubt. 



Chap. XIV. — Produce and Value. 

 The produce of this root will, like that of all other crops, be 

 proportioned to the goodness of the soil, and the skill exerted 

 in the cultivation : among the great variety of notes which might 

 be produced on this occasion, it may be sufficient to quote a few. 

 Mr. Billing's crops, registered in the tract so often referred to, 

 were, the good ones about 700 bushels, and the worst 300, sup- 

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