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dry when put into it. But if wet, they will be in great 

 danger of heating and decaying. To prevent this they 

 ought to be taken out of the ground in dry weather. 

 If possible, after they are topped, they should be per- 

 mitted to be in heaps, undercover, for eight or ten days. 



Carrots will amply repay every expense of the finest 

 culture ; and from their extensive utility, it were much 

 to be wished, they were more generally introduced. In 

 the stable, they are a good substitute for grain to hor- 

 ses, not employed in any quick work, and partially to 

 those that are : they are pecuharly well calculated for 

 fattening oxen and sheep, as well as feeding cows, hor- 

 ses and hog3. One bushel per day is the usual allow- 

 ance for working horses. The tops are valuable for 

 c6ws, sheep and swine. 



Mr. Butler, says that 500 bushels to the acre is a 

 good crop, but that he has known 2,500 bushels to be 

 raised upon an acre, or in that ratio ; and that it is worth 

 2s. v.'hen given raw to. hogs, cattle, and sheep, or 2^. Qd. 

 when boiled, or steamed, and mixed with bran ; such 

 feed makes excellent pork, beef, mutton, butter and 

 cheese. 



PARS^'IPS. 



The cultivation proper for parsnips, is very similar to 

 that for carrots, and the same kind of soil and manures 

 are suitable for each. They, however, require the soil 

 to be loosened eighteen inches deep ; therefore they 

 • should be planted in a stronger soil than that appropri- 

 ated to carrots ; as they demand perhaps a better soil 

 than an)'^ crop the farmer can put into the ground. 



Trench ploughing may be suitably employed for this 

 and the carrot crop. It is performed by first running a 

 furrow the usual depth ; then another plough follows, 

 in the same furrow, and throws up the fresh earth over 

 the old, sufficiently deep to bury that below the com- 

 mon depth of ploughing; then the next light furrow, 

 with the iirst plough, throws the old earth into the bot- 

 tom of the deep furrow and this again follows, with the 

 second plough, and throws the new layer on the top of 

 the old, Slc. 



" Parsnips are considered as good foj^, feeding and fat- 

 tening of cattle as carrots, and are about equally pro- 



