82 ON THE CECONOMY OF THE STABLE, 



digging the crop with dung forks. A man 

 dug about two moderate cart-loads in three- 

 quarters of a day ; finiflied and houfed them 

 all, November 28. The produce upon an acre 

 and half, and half-quarter, was four hundred 

 and thirty-nine and a half heaped bufhel baf- 

 kets, the carrots topped (which was done in 

 the field) and the dirt on. A bafket full, clean 

 walhed, heaped a nine gallon bulhel, and 

 about half-a-peck over ; fo that the crop may 

 be called about three hundred bufhels per acre. 

 The charges were as follow : 



£. s. d. 



Rent and Tythe, 20s. Team, 20s. Seed, 12s. 2120 



Hand-weeding, 2I. 17s. 6d. Hoeing, lis. 8d. 



Digging, 14s 4 32 



Cartage home, 13s. 6d. Topping, 6s. Stow- 

 ing, &c. 10s. 6d I 10 o 



Walbing, halfpenny y^cr bufhel , 12 6 



8 17 8 

 Or not quite 'jld.Jier bufhel. ■ •. 



The carrots were generally Jong and ftraight, 

 but beft in the hazle mould, the black being 

 too (hallow. They were light coloured, and 

 of a fine aromatic flavour. The feafon was 

 exceedingly unfavourable and blighting, and 

 the roots fuffered much from the grub-worm^ 

 but not fo much as the cabbages and potatoes, 

 of which alfo I had about four acres that fea- 

 fon. In a favourable year, from four to five 

 hundred bufhels of carrots per acre, might 



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