OCTOBER. 



will take them np very quickly. They should be 

 left spread over the field till dry, which will be in a 

 day or two ; then thrown into heaps, and carted 

 home; which moving will clear the dirt from them. 

 Unload them in a barn or some out-house, and let 

 the tops be chopped off, and given to the swine ; 

 then lay the roots where they are to remain. Some 

 pile them up in a heap, and cover them with dry 

 sand; others cover them with straw: they will 

 keep very well, if packed close together in any 

 building ; and if it be only a boarded one, cover 

 them with some straw, enough to keep out the 

 frost. There are many ways of preserving them ; 

 .one is, to pile them in a circle, finished conically, 

 with just a scattering of tops left on a few of the 

 outside carrots, as shall form a thin thatch of tops 

 hanging down : not thickly, for the tops will then 

 ferment, and heat the roots : if these few tops rot 

 away, a thin scattering of. straw should be laid, and 

 the pile be not more than five feet diameter. Others 

 put them in a ridge of earth, like potatoe pies. 

 The general way in Suffolk is, to leave them in the 

 ground, and take them up as wanted ; but this is 

 applicable only to a district where every man has 

 a field, else they would be stolen. From Is. 6d. 

 to 2s. a load of 40 bushels, are given for tnking up. 

 Respecting the application of the crop, much 

 has already been said on that head. They are to 

 be given to the team ; if without oats, two bushels 

 per horse per diem ; and they will eat but little 

 hay: they are of incomparable use in fattening 



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