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very well have been ex peeled. The fummer 

 having proved fo dry and, unpropitious, I left 

 the crop to receive the benefit of the autumnal 

 rains, which fucceeded ; but the good efFeft was 

 counterbalanced by late digging up. If they 

 lie in a heap in the field with their tops only 

 half an hour, they heat and become liable to 

 rot. The top fhould be cut off as clofe as 

 poffible, without wounding the root, which 

 will produce decay, and the roots mufl be 

 ftored perfe6lly dry. 



The weather proved fo uncertain, there was 

 no poffibility of getting in this crop dry ; and 

 to enhance my ill-luck, I was perfuaded to lay 

 the roots in draw ; the confequence was, in 

 their fweat they heated the ftraw, which be- 

 came good rotten dung, and in the end about 

 fifty bufhels of carrots we*"„ rotted and fpoiled. 

 In favour of this crop mufl be farther reckon- 

 ed, the young roots which were drawn, to 

 leave the carrots a fpan diftant; thefe young 

 ones were frequently of confiderable fize, and 

 amounted to many cart-loads ; the carrots 

 drawn as wanted, and, laftly, the turning in 

 of pigs after the digging. 



Fourteen bufliels of boiled potatoes went 

 confiderably farther in feeding the fame num- 

 ber of pig flock, than fixteen bufliels of car- 

 rots, befide the latter taking exa6lly double the 

 quantity of fuel. I have various precife de- 



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