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The improvements above mentioned, for regulating the 

 centre of gravity of the load, and tor impeding the progress 

 of the carriage in going down Kill, may be equally well 

 Applied to our ox-carts. 



The wagons generally used in this Country, whether for 

 one, two, or more Horses, are, perhaps, as convenient as 

 those to be found elsewhere : All that is particularly insist- 

 ed on is, that, according to the experience of the best 

 British Farmers., the one-horse cart should be prefered to 

 the wagon on smooth well-cultivated farms, as being cheap- 

 er, and more convenient for most uses. 



Whether the wheels of carts be made of wood or of cast- 

 iron, the rims should be as much as four inches broad ; 

 by this mean they sink less into the earth, and therefore 

 run more safe and steadily. Their being low, and plac- 

 ed pretty wide apart, also renders the cart less liable to 

 upset. 



Carriages should be constantly shielded from the weath- 

 er, when not in use: The Summer sun cracks and shrinks 

 the wood, and wet weather' tends imperceptibly to decay it, 

 and to waste the parts which are of iron by rust. 



For the best method of seasoning timber for carts, 

 wagons, &c. see TIMBER. 



Wagons and carts may be made to run at least one- fifth 

 easier, by having iron rollers in the boxes. This, at the 

 same time, saves the trouble of taring the axletrees. A 

 plan has been patented for wagon-boxes with rollers, which 

 has the rollers held at equal distances, by having each end 

 fixed in a rim or ring ; so that, as the rollers run round in 

 the inside of the box, the ring turns with them, and thus 

 prevents any friction by the rollers geting out of their 

 places. If four or five dollars a year can be saved by the 

 easy runing of a carriage, by being enabled to carry, per- 

 haps, a fifth more at a load, it is well worth while to be at 

 the additional expense of four or five dollars, in the first 

 instance, to fit the carriage for this purpose. 



CARROT (Daucus.) There are few articles of culture 

 more profitable than that of carrots. They will yield, with 

 the best cultivation, from six to eight hundred bushels an 

 acre. 



They require a mellow soil, into which they can easily 

 penetrate deeply. They will grow very well on one which 

 is moderately rich ; provided it be well and deeply mellow- 

 ed. A fertile sand, a sandy loam, a dry warm loam, or a 

 ferule gravelly loam, are each suitable for them, with pro- 

 per manuring and cultivation. The ground ought to be 

 ploughed till it is perfectly mellow, and as deep as possi- 

 ble, not less than eight inches in depth* if you expect the 



