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in agriculture, colts during those months of 

 the year when the growth of pasture is re- 

 strained, foals when weaning, or in addition 

 to the keep of mar^s whose foals are required 

 and permitted to run at the foot all the zcin- 

 ter, it is of equal utihty, particularly to the 

 latter, whose flow of milk it greatly enlarges 

 if given in sufficient quantities to promote 

 the advantage. 



Carrots, the article thus highly com- 

 mended, after fair and impartial trial, is one 

 of the most valuable in the vegetable v/orld, 

 and so easy of cultivation, that in a light 

 sandy soil no crop is supposed to produce a 

 greater share of emolument : of this, certain 

 adventurers are so well convinced, that the 

 very labourers in the north-west parts of the 

 county of Surry rent from the neighbouring 

 farmers a moiety of even the poorest land 

 upon .the verge of the barren heath, at the 

 exorbitant price of three dLudfour pounds per 

 acre for the summer season, only to produce 

 a single crop, when it is immediately resigned 

 to the landlord for his season gf wheat to 

 follow. 



