428 On the Culture of Carrots. 



posing his loads 30 bushels each : but if, like the Suffolk loads, 

 they were ^0 bushels each, then his good ciops might yield above 

 SOO bushels, and his bad ones 400. Messrs. Cope, Mellish, 

 Wharton, and Moodv, all had 20 tons each; or at 56 lbs. the 

 bushel, SOO. Mr. Fellows, of Norfolk, 600. Mr. Gardner, 

 400 to 500. In the Suifolk district 480 to 800. Mr. Acton 

 760 to 960. Mr. Hilton, of Faversham, on a soil exceedingly 

 rich, 17 waggon-loads, as much as four horses could draw: this 

 must be at least 1200 bushels. Mr. Taylor, of Kent, has had 

 crops so low as eight tons, or 320 bushels, but sixteen tons more 

 commonly. Mr. Legrand, of the same county, generally from 

 20 to 30 tons; the medium of which is 1000 bushels. The 

 Rev. Mr. Carter, 326 bushels. Messrs. Gerard, VVeeden, and 

 Winiper, on IOj. land, 400 bushels ; on sheep walk, 200 and 

 220. Mr. Thomson, near Stockton, 30 tons. Mr. Bakewell, 

 of Dishley, the same crop. Average in Surrev, 550 bushels. 

 Mr. Burrows, of Norfolk, in 1807, 760 bushels: in 1810 he 

 gained 11 tons 16cwts.: he speaks of 7 or 800 bushels per 

 acre as a common crop ; i)Ut he has had 900 bushels. In Scot- 

 land, above 17^ tons have been gained per English acre. 



Carefully reviewing the preceding minutes, and avoiding any 

 assertions tliat may raise too high expectation in the minds of 

 those who may be persuaded to trv the cultivation, we mav esti- 

 mate the produce of 'the very worst soils at 200 bushels ; of 

 middling land at 450 ; and of the best soils at 700 : there are 

 cases of unusual fertility which may rise higher ; but these pro- 

 ducts may generally be expected by such farmers as will be di- 

 recti.d in their attempts by the circumstances noted in the pre- 

 ceding chapters. 



In regard to value, and beginning with horses, we have al- 

 ready seen tliat carrots paid Mr. Billing in the proportion of 9t/. 

 per bushel, hay at 3/. per ton. At VVoodbridgf.', a bushel per 

 diem, saved the oats ; reckon these, two bushels per vveek ; now 

 if oats be 325. per quarter, it is 8s. for seven bushels of carrots, 

 or \s. 1 \d. per bushel ; in another Woodbridge entry, 13 bushels 

 per week saved two of oats, and half the liay; this may be called 

 14 lbs., and per week 98 lbs. saving by oats S.f., and by hay 

 2s. Id., together lO*. Id., or 9>ld. per bushel of carrots. In the 

 next case, uitli horses not ->o highly fed, seven bushels of carrots 

 saved one of oats, or 4s., and hs. 2d. in hay, together 9s. 2d. ; 

 this is Is. 3|(/. per bushel of carrots. The next entry gives 

 \0^d. per bushel. The next \(){d. In this case hay was valued 

 at 41. per ton, and oats at 43.?. per quarter. The average of 

 these six minutes gives, foi the value of carrots in feeding horses^ 

 1 l\d. per bushel. 



In fattening oxen, ^Ir. Aloody's carrots p^id hiin 205, per tan 



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