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farmers in Suffolk, the barley which succeeds them 

 is equal to that after turnips fed on the land by 

 sheep ; and all agree, that they prepare perfectly 

 well for that crop. A circumstance which speaks 

 for them, perhaps more than any other, is, that 

 the culture, within the last ten years, has increased 

 greatly in that county, so that there are now pro- 

 bably twenty acres, where, twenty years ago, there 

 were not five. It is common now to see from 

 twenty to thirty acres on a farm. If a young cul- 

 tivator, therefore, possesses any dry and deep soil, 

 he cannot do better than determine upon this 

 branch of farming, which will be sure to pay him 

 well. 



CARROTS OX GRASS. 



This is not common husbandry any where, but 

 it should be in the farmer's recollection, that they 

 do exceedingly well put in on one ploughing of old 

 grass-land, on a proper soil. Mr. Gainsborough, 

 of Sudbury, on a farm at Braintree, in Essex, 

 ploughed up a grass-field, the turf seven years old, 

 and harrowed in carrot-seed immediately ; the soil 

 a good loam, worth 20s. an acre twenty years ago. 

 The crop varied from 600 to 700 bushels an acre. 

 He practised this husbandry three years successively 

 on different portions of grass, and with uniform 

 success*. 



* Annals, vol. v. p. 414. 



PARSNIPS. 



