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turned each way upon this open furrow, so as to form a ridge 

 directly over the manure. These ridges should be twenty or 

 twenty-seven inches apart. On the top of these ridges, which 

 should be smoothed off carefully, the carrot seed should be 

 sown in double rows ten inches apart, and as straightly as possi 

 ble. The carrot seed should be sprouted in wet sand, before 

 sowing, and should early be weeded. The land may then be 

 ploughed between the rows, and kept clean with a hoe. They 

 must be thinned out in the row to about six inches asunder. 

 When ready to be taken up, by running a plough directly by the 

 side of the row of carrots, they are gathered with little trouble. 

 I have now gone through the principal crops grown in Con 

 tinental husbandry, and though not undertaking to give a full 

 detail of the culture, yet I have given all the peculiarities which 

 distinguish any mode of culture, and those general rules and 

 principles which are universally applicable. 



CXXXIX. IMPLEMENTS OF HUSBANDRY. 



In Paris at the Conservatory of Arts and Trades, at Brussels, 

 at Utrecht, I found extensive collections of agricultural imple 

 ments and models of agricultural tools and machinery. These 

 embraced many of the most improved implements to be found in 

 England or the United States. It may excite a smile of surprise 

 with an Englishman, that I speak of the United States in this 

 connection. But I have seen nothing on the Continent or in 

 Great Britain equal to the collections of agricultural implements 

 which are to be found, for example, in Boston, United States. 

 The English implements are usually clumsy, heavy, and inordi 

 nately expensive. In treating of British Husbandry, I have given 

 an account of some of the best of them. They at least answer 

 the purposes of the ingenious mechanics, who understand very 

 well when they have got their pail under a cow with a full udder, 

 and how in the most agreeable manner to abstract the gold from 

 the pockets of enthusiastic agricultural amateurs. Like the 

 Flemish cows, they are carefully fed, not to say flattered, while 



