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No. XI. 



On the Culture of Carrots. By the Rev. F. Eldridge. 



Sir, 



Seeing by the newspapers you are once more President of the Board of Agri- 

 culture, permit me, Sir, to address you on a subject which seems not to be treated 

 of by any author that I have seen. 



Mr. Arthur Young, in his Farmer's Calendar, has given a great deal of useful 

 information concerning the mode of feeding catde in the yard with green fodder ; 

 but in treating of the carrot, he has entirely overlooked the great value of this most 

 useful root. 



I hope you will not think me obtruding too much on your time, if I point out 

 to you and the Board its great good qualities for feeding. My ideas are not theo- 

 retical, as I have tried it for the last six years; and though I was told by many 

 people I was doing an injury to the carrot, I found perfectly the contrary, that I 

 was doing it a great deal of good. In the year 1800, at Bonvilstone, in Glamor- 

 ganshire, being in want of grass for a little Welsh cow, as my land was all for hay, 

 and having ten beds of carrots in a new garden, I had the tops of the carrots 

 mowed off a little above the crown, so as not to injure by the scythe the head or 

 crown of the roots: this, I need not inform you, was a very luxuriant food for the 

 COW; but I thought, and so did the servant who milked the cow, that she gave 

 more milk when she had the carrot top than she had done before. The carrot again 

 yielded a fine luxuriant green head, which I treated in the same manner in Octo- 

 ber. I found when the carrot itself was taken up, that it was equally as large and 

 heavy, as a bed which I had reserved from cutting was. The gardener, who had 

 been averse to cutting off the tops, was convinced it had not injured the root, but 

 thought it had benefited it rather than otherwise; as he had an opportunity of 

 hoeing and cleaning of them from weeds better than he could when they had their 

 tops on them. I am therefore convinced, by experience, that !he agriculturist who 

 grows a quantity of carrots, loses, a great quantity of most excellent green fodder for 



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