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other fields of roots, that they might the better understand the 

 claims of the competitors, slopped on their return from Sutton, 

 at the farm of the chairman, to view a carrot crop growing on 

 land which had borne the same crop for five consecutive years, 

 each year having more than an average burden. From the 

 appearance of the tops and the roots which they raised, they 

 believed the yield would be considerably greater than any they 

 had seen. The chairman was present when these carrots were 

 being harvested. He was shown a root which had just been 

 raised which measured from its crown, or the place of separa- 

 tion of the leaves and the root, to its extremity, as it then was, 

 over two feet. The root had evidently been broken off; what 

 was its true length in the ground, when whole, he is ignorant. 

 The fact is now stated, as affording evidence of the expediency 

 of deep culture. Some six years since the land was in grass, 

 but being desirous of preparing the ground for a fruit orchard, 

 the land was ploughed deep by a common plough, followed by 

 a subsoil plough, and five years since, fruit trees were set out, 

 and the land has since been constantly under cultivation, and 

 on the greater part thereof, carrots have been grown each year. 



The committee also viewed the crop of .^arrots of Mr. Ham- 

 mond, one of the committee, which was also grown in an or- 

 chard of young bearing trees, which promised a greater yield 

 than did those of the competitors. 



It is understood that a member of this society in the town of 

 Bolton, who has cultivated this crop largely in former years, 

 had the present year six acres in carrots, and considers their 

 culture as quite profitable ; he sells a considerable part of these 

 roots to livery stable keepers for the use of their horses, and 

 ihey are much desired by them. 



Believing that the value of this crop is not duly appreciated 

 by members of the society, for the use of their stock, the fol- 

 lowing evidence is offered to this point. 



Carrots vs. Oats. — We have had twenty communications 

 from various sources, all of which concur in saying that a peck 

 of carrots will, with the same quantity of hay, keep working 

 horses in as good condition, and many say better, than a peck 

 of oats, and a like quantity of hay ; or that a peck of carrots 



