204 Cultivation of Arable Land. Carrots Utility of Crops of. 



to be from two-pence halfpenny to two (hillings ; but in general it may be from 

 fix pence to eight pence or ten pence the bufhel, which on four or five hundred 

 buftiels is confiderable. 



On the whole, from the facility of cultivating carrot crops, the little danger 

 that attends them, their great application in feeding and fattening various kinds 

 of animals, the vaft quantity of manure they produce, and their utility in prepar 

 ing the land for grain, they may in general not only be confidered as fuperior to 

 turnips, but much better adapted and more advantageous on all pure fands or 

 light fandy loams. This is indeed ftill more fhewn by their having been found 

 by experiment to be capable of being grown with profit in fucceffion on the 

 fame land ;* as, though the cultivator may only have a fmall proportion of 

 ground fuitable for this root, he may conftantly be provided with it. Notwith- 

 itanding the neglect that has attended it, probably from its properties and value 

 not having been well afcertained, it fhould be more generally cultivated wherever 

 the foils are proper for it, not only as the means of faving the great confumption 

 of oats and beans by horfes, but as of much utility in the feeding and fattening of 

 different forts of live ftock. 



It feems probable too that carrots, after being prepared by boiling, might be 

 converted to thepurpofes of fattening different kinds of poultry with great advan 

 tage, as they are extremely fond of them. Parfhips have been found highly ufe- 

 ful in this mode of application, as will be feen below. 



It has been attempted, in order to render the large tops of carrots ufeful, to 

 convert them into a fort of hay, by mowing them over while green and juicy, 

 without wounding the heads of the roots, and afterwards drying them on the 

 ground. In this way two tons of fodder are faid to have been produced from an 

 acre of land.-}- It is obvious, however, from plants of this fort taking in part of 

 their nourifhment by their leaves, that if cut while perfectly green, much injury 



Value per bushel. 



Application. . s. d. 



Jn feeding all forts of cattle - - C-i 



The average in different ways - - - 010 



In fattening oxen ... .. 6 



In fattening hogs, boiled - - - - 020 



Ufed initeiul of oats for horfes - - - - 6 



In fattening hogs, raw - - 008 



In fattening fheep - 004 



* Young s Eaftcrn Tour, vol. IV. i Baker, in Tranfadions of Dublin Soioty, 



