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I see no cause for altering the opinion, that carrots may be 

 more profitably produced on the same land for a succession of 

 years. First, because the land is thereby cleansed from all 

 noxious weeds the first season, and being worked with the sub- 

 soil plough or spade deeper than most of our farmers can afford 

 to work their whole farm, the ground is more easily worked 

 and cleansed in all after years ; and if long or whole manure is 

 used, say the droppings in the stable from a well fed stock, 

 (which if permitted to remain in the barn cellar until after the 

 carrots are cleared off, being almost one year old, cannot and 

 does not contain weed seed,) if we do not find all the weeds the 

 first season we should the next. All composts for the root 

 crop of any kind should be avoided, as I believe them friendly 

 to weeds of all kinds. " The ashes of the carrot are, per cent, 

 potash and soda, 45 ; lime, 10 ; sulphuric acid, 2.7; phosphoric 

 acid, 5.14," so says the Farmer's Dictionary. "Hence ashes, 

 common salt and gypsum are eminently useful as manures ;" an 

 abundance of well rotted leaves and muck should be added. 



Carrots have been grown to a greater extent in Sutton the 

 present year than in any previous year, and all seem satisfied 

 that they have no better crop ; yet I have found no one that 

 could tell any thing about their cost or wortic per bushel. The 

 manufacturer of cotton can tell you to a fraction the cost of his 

 fabric and the precise number of picks to the inch in a yard 

 of his cloth, without any aid in way of premiums for his labor ; 

 he knows whether he is making a loss or gain from his estab- 

 lishment. Not so with the farmer. A liberal premium has 

 been offered by our Agricultural Society for several years to de- 

 termine the cost of production and the true value of the crop for 

 consumption, as well as the best modes of cultivation, and I be- 

 lieve that some advances have been made. 



But still Mr. A., in the consumption of his crop, happening 

 to be in possession of one of Pharaoh's ill-favored and lean 

 kine, determines to put him to feeding on these roots. The 

 result proves a bad one, and he throws the whole root tribe 

 overboard ; while Mr. B. works his help, weeding and hoeing 

 between showers and before breakfast, while the tops are wet. 

 His men complain, and his crop is injured, and he concludes it 



