140 MAUCH. 



land he will apply to carrots, it is necessary to men- 

 tion here some of the inducements which should 

 instigate him to venture, without apprehension, on 

 so very profitable an article of cultivation. 



1st, The teams of horses cannot, in any other 

 way, be fed so profitably as on this root. If they 

 have only chaff and carrots, the allowance is two 

 bushels per horse per diem. If a bushel of oats 

 per horse per week, then one bushel a day of car- 

 rots, and no hay. An acre of 400 bushels, lasts 

 one horse 200 days, or two horses 1OO days, during 

 \vhich time they are in perfection. Thus fed, it is 

 an acre per horse: or, at half-feeding, half an acre 

 per horse. 



2dly, They are excellent for all sorts of stock- 

 hogs, sows, and weaned pigs. They have been 

 found to fatten well, though some who have tried 

 them for that purpose have had ill success. How- 

 ever, for all lean hogs, there is no question or dis~ 

 pute, that they thrive well on them. 



3dly, No food is superior for fattening oxen. 



4thly, Nor for feeding young cattle and milch cows. 



5thly, They fatten sheep profitably. 



They may be estimated to cost 61. per acre, or 

 3*d. per bushel, prime cost. Supposing /id. it is 

 evident that the advantage must be very grrat. 

 The common selling price, among neighbours, in 

 Suffolk, is from &:l. to pd. a bushel : generally 6d. 



Nor is it onlv in the use of them that this crop 

 is valuable to the farmer : they are also very advan- 

 tageous to the land. In the opinion of some 



farmers 



