432 On Ihe Culture of Carrots. 



Mr. Harvey, in Worcestershire, gained as good barley after 

 carrots without manure, as after turnips manured. 



In the various experiments of Mr. Burrows, the barley which 

 he gained after carrots yielded amply, rarely less than five quar- 

 ters per acre. 



These facts are sufficient to prove that carrots, so far from 

 having any exhausting quality, do actually improve land to a very 

 high degree. 



Cliap. XVII. — Accidents and Distempers. 



Comparing carrots with every other fallow crop, their supe- 

 rioiity is perhaps in no other point so decisive as in this: if the 

 seed be good, the crop may be considered as certain; they are 

 not subject to depredations by fly, slug, grub, or any other ene- 

 my, at least to such a degree, that in all the registers I have 

 consulted, I do not recollect one absolute failure ; and when the 

 multitude of accidents to which other fallow crops are exposed, 

 is well considered, this circumstance cannot fail of making a 

 strong impression on the reader's mind. I have heard of but 

 two enemies, rabbits and hares : these may so abound as to do 

 much mischief, if the scale of culture be not great. 



Chap. XVIII. — Imporlanee of the Culture for the Improvement 

 of dry Land. 

 The importance of a crop, which, after paying for deep tillage 

 and incessant hoeings, yields an ample profit in the consumption 

 of live stock, and gives a great quantity of the best dung, cannot 

 for a moment be doubted ; in fact, the advantage to the farmer 

 mav, upon the whole, be considered as superior to that attending 

 anv other common production of the earth. The circumstance 

 of being able to feed or fatten ail the live stock of a farm, by a 

 crop which does not demand directly an ounce of dung, is sin- 

 gular and decisive. When the advantages are so prominent, it 

 mav excite some degree of astonishment, that the cultivation is 

 not' universally pursued on all the soils which admit it; and yet 

 the fact remains, that it is known scarcely any where. Ex- 

 cluding the vicinity of London, vyhere the object is, of course, 

 the supply of the markets of that metropolis, there is but one 

 district in the kingdom where the culture is thoroughly esta- 

 blished. To what may we attribute this strange fact ? Perhaps 

 it is caused by tl.e same circumstance which meets us in such a 

 multitude of inquiries — the want of capital. But this circum- 

 stance is not applicable to the teams of a farm, or to the cows 

 or wethers already upon it. In these respects we can attribute 

 the neglect to ignorance alone; and it is much to be lamented, 

 that effective steps are not taken to enlighten the farmers of the 

 kingdom upon a point of such real importance. 



LXIX. Note 



