264- ON CARROTS. 



very bad for them. They mould never be 

 taken up when it is frofty. 



A NUMBER of men mould be employed 

 to take them up with dung-forks, and 

 women fufficient to cut off their tops at 

 an inch from the carrot, and put them into 

 carts to be conveyed home. 



IF the ground is light and fandy, and 

 the weather dry, they will be very clean ; 

 but if the ground is of the loamy kind, 

 the mould adheres to them, which mould 

 be rubbed off with the hand, and care 

 mould be taken not to break the rind. 

 Thole that are cut or broke, mould be 

 thrown by for prefent ufe. 



WHEN they are brought home there 

 mould be an inch of the dry fand fpread 

 over about fix feet in length of the floor, 

 and fome very dry wheat-ftraw laid up at 

 the end and both fides of the houfe ; then 

 the carrots mould be brought in and laid 

 even on the floor a foot thick, and a pile 



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