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of carrots. He states the yield on two acres at 600 bushels to the 

 acre ; and the cost of cultivation, exclusive of manure and rent of 

 land, at 25 dollars per acre ; or a little more than four cents per 

 bushel. For feeding horses, he says, he should prefer one hundred 

 bushels of carrots and one hundred bushels of oats to two hundred 

 bushels of oats. He applied them in a raw state to the feeding of 

 his team horses, and horses in preparation for market ; and they were 

 kept by them in high health and spirits. Oats followed his carrot 

 crop on the same ground with great success. The experience of J. 

 C. Curwen, Eng. in the use of carrots for horses, corresponds with 

 that of Mr. Merrill. The authority of Curwen is unquestionable ; 

 and he was in the habit of employing constandy as many as eighty 

 horses on his farm and in his extensive coal mines. 



" I cannot omit" he says, " stating the great profit of carrots. I 

 have found by the experience 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 be perfectly 

 as good as with the whole quantity of oats. With the drill husband- 

 ry and proper attention, very good crops of carrots may be obtained 

 upon soils, not generally supposed suitable to their growth." 



He adds in another place. " The profits and advantages of carrots 

 are in my opinion greater than any other crop. This admirable root 

 has, upon repeated and very extensive trials for the last three years, 

 been found to answer most perfectly as a part substitute for oats. 

 Where ten pounds of oats are given per day, four pounds may be 

 taken away ; and their place supplied by five pounds of carrots. 

 This has been practised in the feeding of eighty horses for the last 

 three years, with the most complete success, and the health and con- 

 dition of the horses allowed to be improved by the exchange. An 

 acre of carrots supplies an equal quantity of food for working horses, 

 as sixteen to twenty acres of oats."* 



My own experience of the value of carrots, which has not been 

 small, fully confirms these statements. I have obtained at the rate 

 of more than a thousand bushels to the acre on three quarters of an 



■ Curwen's Hinti on Agricultural Subjects. 



