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provided with Inccrn, chicory, clover, or other 

 crops applicable to soiling. If he has such crops, 

 tares are. pr >porlionably unnecessary ; but it he has 

 not, then he should- be very careful to have a due 

 succession of tares. 'These are also to be applied 

 to penning sheep, and arc for that use of much 

 importance. 



CARROTS. 



Tills is the season for sowing carrots. The land 

 should be deep ploughed, flat, and 5lb. of seed 

 to an a/cre sown broad -cast, and harrowed in. If 

 the weather is unusually v.et, a farmer may be pre- 

 vented from getting on the land ; but, if possible, 

 he should dclav it no Ion seer than the '23th. The 



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proper soil should not be mistaken th rough common 

 notions, n&v confined to a compass much within its 

 reality. It is a general idea, that nothing but sands 

 will do for carrots; but this is a mistske. The best 

 soil for them is a sandy loam, rather light but moist, 

 of a great depth ; in which there is little difficulty 

 in ploughing to the very beam of the plough, all 

 the soil brought up being of the same kind, and as 

 fit for vegetation as the surface. This sandy loam, 

 with these properties, should in general yield good 

 crops of all sorts. But, at the same time that I 

 mention this soil as most desirable, still the crop 

 will thrive to great profit on heavier loams, but 

 not on wet ones or ou clays. On good wheat 

 loams, of the gravelly kinds, that plough easily, 

 they do well. At first sight, such soils might per- 

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