ON THE CECONOMY OF THE STABLE. 8l 



they may ferve to remind a confiderable num- 

 ber of perlbns, who have not yet made trial of 

 carrots, of their great confequence, in the hght 

 of that moft material objeft of hufbandry, 

 winter food for cattle. 



The foil was a loam of tolerable fertility, 

 partly hazle and partly black ; the former in 

 general ten inches deep, the latter rather 

 ftoney and (hallow. It had produced near a 

 load of beans per acre, the preceding year. On 

 February 17 — Ploughed for the firft time, as 

 deep as a very ordinary team of three light 

 mares would perform. March 18 — Ploughed 

 in twenty loads per acre of good rich yard 

 dung. The 2C;th — Sowed broad-caft eight 

 pound of Sandwich feed, procured from a 

 gardener, upon an acre and half laid out in 

 lands; and April 21— Sowed another quarter 

 acre. Second week in May began hand-weed- 

 ing with women, a boy attending them to 

 carry the weeds to the farm-yard, which, with 

 the young roots were greedily eaten by the 

 fows. The acre and half was weeded in a fort- 

 night, three women the firft, and eleven the 

 lad week. June 20 — Weeded a fecond time, 

 finiflied in about ten days. July 16— Thinned 

 the carrots for the lafl time, and began hoeing; 

 finiflied in ten days by one man. In Septem- 

 ber and 061ober took them up occafionally, as 

 wanted, for £lo re-pigs. November 2d, began 



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