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Potatoes and carrots, &c. will exceed seven times the comparative feeding of 

 hay ; and both these crops have the further advantage, they may be conveyed by 

 water carriage from districts where rents are from 155. to 205. per acre, to where 

 five or six pounds are paid, and labour proportionably high. 



What encouragement does this hold out for the improvement of lands distant 

 from populous towns, that have the advantages of water carriage! 



Summer soiling, in comparison with grazing, will equal, if not exceed the pro- 

 portion of seven to one, besides the almost incalculable advantage of preserving the 

 manure. 



I cannot omit stating the great profit of carrots. I have found, by the experiente 

 of the last two years, that where eight pounds of oat feeding was allowed to draft 

 horses, four pounds might be taken away and supplied by an equal weight of 

 carrots, and the health, spirit, and ability of the horses to do their work, perfectly 

 as good as with the whole quantity of oats. With the drill husbandry and proper 

 attention, very good crops of carrots may be obtained upon soils not generally 

 supposed applicable to their growth. Under proper management an acre of carrots 

 I conceive to be worth fifty pounds. 



A saving of sixty acres of land in a farm of six hundred, in the feeding of cattle 

 alone, opens a wide field for speculation. The retrenchment of a tenth, with a gain 

 to the public of the means, if applied to the growth of corn, of supporting in bread 

 one hundred and eighty persons, cannot fail of calling forth serious reflections, and 

 challenging attention to the important advantages which might be drawn from the 

 general adoption of this system. 



However great and desirable the object of supplying milk to the poor, we lose 

 sight of it in contemplating the prosperity and happiness that would result to all 

 ranks of the community, from being enabled to produce sufficient grain of British 

 growth, not only to feed our present population, but to supply the means of pro- 

 viding for a considerable addition to it. 



Is it possible to contemplate the saving of sixty acres of land in feeding so small 

 a stock, without being struck with the powerful resources which the public as well 

 as individuals have in their power to draw from the adoption of such a plan upon 

 an extensive scale ? 



May I hope, through your indulgence and permission, to be excused in offering 



