$02 Cultivation of Arable Land. Carrots Taking up Craps ofE 



much exceed half the fum. Cleaning, topping, and carting in the fame trials, un 

 der fimilar circum Ranees, were found on the average to be 155. 7^. the acre r the 

 whole expence of procuring crops of this kind, in fuch cafes, being in the propor 

 tion of fix pounds four {hillings and eleven pence the acre ; or, in relation to the 

 quantity of produce afforded, about two pence three farthings- the bufhel : the 

 quantity of produce, on an average of the whole of the different experiments, be- 

 ingabout five hundred and twenty-nine bufhels the acre.* The expence of cultivat 

 ing this root on a- poor fandy foil, not worth more than five (hillings the acre, is- 

 ftated as below by the writer of the Report of the State of Agriculture in the 

 County of Suffolk :+ the produce in this cafe being about two hundred bufhels on-&amp;gt; 

 the acre. The firfl coft, of courle, about three pence the bufhel. In medium 

 crops of middling forts of land the produce may in general be from three hundred 

 to three hundred and fifty bufhels on the acre,+ the expenses of cultivation being 

 from three to four pounds. On comparing them, in thefe crops, with thofe of 

 the turnip kind, the difference has, been found to be about one pound in favour of 

 the latter.^ 



It is obvious from the above ftatements, that though the expences of carrot hu~ 

 bandry are very conilderabte in moft forts of land, the largenefs of the produce, 

 its utility in the feeding of various kinds of live flock, and the improved condition- 

 in which the foil is left by it, warrant ks introduction, wherever the cultivator is 

 poffeffed of thofe fandy or other defcriptions of foil that are fuitable for it, as the* 

 mod advantageous that can bepurfued. 



The confumption of this fort of crop has been chiefly in the feeding of horfesj 

 and the keeping of different forts of cattle, fheep, and hogs ; but as, from its firm- 

 fiefhy nature, and its containing much faccharine matter, it is found to poffefs the- 

 property of quickly rendering animals fat without being employed in very large 



* Annals of Agriculture, vol. XXV. 



. s- d. 



+ Deep ploughing once - - . - - o 7 0. ; 



Expence of feed and fowing -- - - - - 046&quot; 



Hoeing - - - - - 1 1 



Taking up and topping 5 loads, of forty bulhels each - - 050- 



Carting . . . . .. . 05O 



Bent, t)?the, and rates - - -- . 070 



.2 9 

 Modern Agriculture, vol.11, Ibid. 



