On the Cullure of Carrots. 43 1 



Middling land, 450 bushels, at Srf. ^15 

 Expenses 84 7 



Profit .. .. a£6 15 5 



Best land, 700 bushels, at 8^. . . ,^23 6 8 

 Expenses 10 4 7 



Profit .. .. 13 2 1 

 The cultivation well deserves the attention of a farmer, even 

 if the profit amounts to no more than 13^. on land of 10*. per 

 acre ; it is alone a rent, and fully equal, or rather much ex- 

 ceeding, in that proportion, what is made on the average of all 

 crops on farms ; for, besides this advantage on the consumption, 

 the land is well cleaned, and much manure raised : as to the 

 benefit on other soils, it is too obvious to call for any observa- 

 tions; far exceeding, as it evidently does, the profit of ail the 

 more common applications of the soil. 



Chap. XVI. — Do they" exhaust or ameliorate the Soil P 



If we reason by analogy, it is scarcely possible to doubt of 

 carrots being an ameliorating crop ; but this will be placed be- 

 yond all question, by inserting a few cases which prove the fact. 

 Mr. Cope, of Nottinghamshire, was in a system which well de- 

 serves attention ; he kept his carrots so long in the ground for 

 spring use that he did not venture barley or oats after them, but 

 sowed turnips; and these two hoed crops coming together, 

 cleaned the land to an extraordinary degree, and so improved 

 it, that the following barley yielded from six to ten quarters per 

 acre. Mr. Moody, of Retford, gained eleven quarters five bu- 

 shels of oats after them. 



In Cambridgeshire, barley was found better after carrots, 

 carted off the land, than after turnips eaten on the soil. The 

 same result is found in the Suffolk carrot district ; also by Mr. 

 Cotton, of Hesgrave, provided the barley be sown at the right 

 seasons. 



In Nottinghamshire,the barley was better after carrots that had 

 no manure,than after turnips which had dung. Mr. Billing dunged 

 the middle of a field for turnips, and sowed the two ends of it to 

 carrots without dung, and the barley after the carrots was better 

 than after the turnips. On other occasions he got crops of bar- 

 ley after this root, which were, to use his own expression, pro- 

 digious ; not less than three waggon-loads in the straw per acre. 

 Mr. Kirby sowed them after turnips, and then barley ; he got a 

 quarter an acre more barley than the land would have yielded, 

 if that crop had followed turnips without the carrots intervening. 



Mr. 



