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for feeding not only swine, but 

 horses and cattle, and for fattening 

 them. But to fatten swine on 

 them, they should be boiled, or 

 parboiled. They are so easily 

 cultivated, and so hardy, that they 

 may be raised in tields to great ad- 

 vantage. They will grow well in 

 a soil that is but moderately rich, 

 if it be ploughed deep, and made 

 mellow. And there is no difficul- 

 ty in keeping them through the 

 winter, in good order for feeding 

 cattle. The ground should be 

 ploughed in the fall preceding, and 

 ploughed very deep. If the plough 

 do not go deep enough at once, it 

 should be trench ploughed ; that 

 is, the plough should pass twice in 

 the furrow. And if some of the 

 earth, which was never betbre stir- 

 red, should be thrown up to the 

 surface, it will be no damage, pro- 

 vided it be such earth as crumbles 

 easily, and does not remain in 

 lumps, after the winter frosts have 

 acted upon it. 



If the lands incline to much wet- 

 ness, it should be water furrowed, 

 after the autumnal ploughing, that 

 so it may be dry, and fit to be 

 ploughed again very early in the 

 spring. It must be well harrowed 

 before sowing, first with a heavy 

 harrow, and afterwards with a 

 lighter one, with shorter teeth pla- 

 ced near together. After the seed 

 is sown, the ground should be rak- 

 ed. When sown in the broad cast 

 method, they should stand so far 

 apart after thinning,as to have each 

 half a foot of soil. There will be 

 no danger of thinning them early, 

 as they are a plant which is sel- 

 dom diminished by insects. 



It is with pleasure that I find the 

 attention of some of my country- 

 men turned to the field culture of 

 this excellent root. They who 

 have but little land may probably 

 enable themselves to keep consid- 

 erable stocks by means of it. 



This root has greatly the advan- 

 tage of turnips, not only in its be- 

 ing a richer and more nourishing 

 food, and in yielding a larger pro- 

 duce, but also in its being never,or 

 very seldom, annoyed or hurt by 

 insects. This crop, rightly man- 

 aged, I have never known to fail, 

 as it is well known the other often 

 does. 



The drill method, sowing on nar- 

 row ridges, raised by the cultivator, 

 is preferred by some, and is that 

 which I use. But the labour will 

 perhaps be increased a little. The 

 seeds will do best sown by hand, 

 as their shape will not well admit 

 of their being drilled. To prepare 

 them for sowing at all, they should 

 be well rubbed, and passed through 

 a sieve. The first hoeing of car- 

 rots in rows must be also by hand ; 

 at which hoeing they should be 

 thinned to one or two inches asun- 

 der, if large ones are desired. — 

 The after hoeings may be expedi- 

 tiously done by the horse hoe and 

 cultivator alternately. It is not 

 amiss, if they grow large and rank, 

 when they are chiefly designed as 

 food for cattle, though small sized 

 ones are preferred for the table. 

 For this use they need not be 

 thinned to more than half an inch 

 asunder in the rows : And perhaps 

 not so much in good ground. The 

 way to keep carrots good for eat- 

 ing through the winter is to bury 



