130 CAKROTS. [MARCH. 



next best a barley stubble, which succeeded turnips 

 so fed. Some farmers put them in on a wheat 

 stubble, when a manuring of yard-dung has been 

 given for the wheat crop ; but in this way they ai 

 more apt to be foul. A modern improvement, anc 

 which deserves attention, is, that of steeping tl 

 seed from twenty to thirty hours, in order to ac< 

 lerate its coming up. 



Though carrots are consumed only in the wint< 

 and in the spring, and consequently their us 

 to be treated of under the head of winter anc 

 spring food, yet as the young farmer must detei 

 mine in this month of March, what breadth 

 land he will apply to carrots, it is necessary to men- 

 tion here some of the inducements which should 

 instigate him to venture, without apprehension, on 

 so very profitable an article of cultivation. 



1st, The teams of horses cannot, in any other 

 way, be fed so profitably as on carrots. If they 

 have only chaff and carrots, the allowance is two 

 bushels per horse per diem. If a bushel of oats 

 per horse per week, then one bushel a clay of car- 

 rots, and no hay. An acre of 40O bushels, lasts 

 one horse 200 days, or two horses 1OO days, during 

 which time they are in perfection. Thus fed, it is 

 an acre per horse : or, at half- feeding, half an aero 

 per hor 



2dly, They are excellent for all sorts of stock- 

 hogs, sows, weaned pigs, and all others. They 

 have been found to fatten well, though some who 



have 



