MARCH. 13 J 



baps be thougbt too stiff; but they will yield large 

 carrots ; the expences, however, are higher in 

 cleaning, &c 



I canuot leave this article without recommend- 

 ing to all the possessors of the lighter sort of lands 

 that have a pretty good depth, to cultivate this CXT 

 cellent root with spirit; not to confine it to a little 

 close of an acre or two, but to introduce it, in 

 the course of the crops on a form, regularly, like 

 wheat, barley, turnips, or any other plant. None 

 \vill pay better; and, if managed tolerably, few so well. 



The almost uniform practice in Suffolk, where 

 this root is cultivated more largely than in any other 

 part of the kingdom, is to delay all tillage till the 

 time of sowing, the favourite period for that being 

 about the 25th of this month. The best of all 

 preparations for this root is a turnip- fallow, the 

 crop of which was fed on the land by sheep. The 

 next best a barley stubble, which succeeded turnips 

 so fed. Some farmers put them in on a wheat 

 stubble, when a manuring of yard dung has been 

 given for the wheat crop ; but in this way they are 

 more apt to be foul. A modern improvement, and 

 which deserves attention, is that of steeping the 

 seed from twenty to thirty hours, in order to acce- 

 lerate its coming up. 



Though carrots are consumed only in the winter 

 and in the spring, and consequently their use 

 to be treated of under the head of winter and 

 spring food, yet as the young farmer must deter- 

 mine in this month of March, what breadth of 



land 



