MARCH.] CARROTS OX GRASS. 



have tried them for that purpose have hnd ill suc- 

 cess. However, for all lean hogs, there is no 

 question or dispute, but they thrive well on them. 



3clly, No food is superior for fattening oxen. 



4thly, Nor for feeding young cattle and milch 

 cov. 



Stilly, They fatten sheep profitably. 



They may be estimated to cost 61. per acre, or 

 3^d. per bushel, prime cost. Supposing 4d., it is 

 evident that the advantage must be very great. 

 The common selling price, among neighbours, in 

 Suffolk, is from 6d. to Qd. a bushel, generally 6d. 



Nor is it only in the use of them that this crop 

 is valuable to the farmer : they arc also very advan- 

 tageous to the land. In the opinion of some 

 farmers in Suffolk, the barley which succeeds them 

 is equal to that after turnips fed on the land by 

 sheep ; and all agree, that they prepare perfectly 

 well for that crop. A circumstance which speaks 

 for them, perhaps more than any other, is, that 

 the culture, within the last ten years, has in- 

 creased greatly in that county, so that there are 

 now probably twenty acres, where, twenty years 

 ago, there were not five. It is common now to 

 see from twenty to thirty acres on a farm. If a 

 young cultivator, therefore, possesses any dry and 

 deep soil, he cannot do better than determine upon 

 this branch of farming, which will be sure to pay 

 him well. 



CARROTS ON GRASS. 



This is not common husbandry any where, but 



it 



