sive crop to raise. They are very good winter and spring 

 food for cart horses, and also for milking cows ; giving the 

 butter the same pure flavor as that which is produced in 

 summer. Light soil, if deep, is most congenial for their 

 growth ; they require the deepest ploughing, and when the 

 cultivation is not on a large scale, I should recommend 

 deep digging. But I feel confident, should I live another 

 year, that I shall find that the plough with the grubbers I 

 have described in the page on ploughing, will answer 

 better than deep digging. They are best drilled, to lessen 

 the difficulty of setting them out. The seed should be 

 only slightly covered with mould, and rolled or trodden in. 

 As they are not so liable to be injured by frost as mangel 

 wurzel, they may safely be secured for the winter in an 

 outhouse ; if buried in the manner of mangel wurzel, the 

 pits must not be above three feet wide, for if great care is 

 not taken, they will heat very much, and rot. Mine are 

 kept in a pit sunk for the purpose, about six feet deep, 

 under a corn hovel ; all effluvia arising from fermentation 

 escaping, they do not rot, and when frost sets in, are easily 

 secured from it. If they are sown in rows they will be safe 

 in the ground all winter, by drawing with a hoe a little 

 mould over the crown of the root. Some years ago, I got a 

 crop of Altringham carrots, of extraordinary size, of which 

 I was more proud than of any crop I ever grew ; but, from 

 injudiciously burying them, much to my mortification, 

 every one of them rotted. The best preventive against great 

 fermentation and rotting when stored, is, to let them pre- 

 viously be laid in a heap to undergo what is commonly 

 called a sweat. I did not weigh my crop last year, but I 

 believe it exceeded the weight of my crop of mangel wurzel, 

 which was very fine. Carrots should be sown without 

 manure as soon as the land can be got in good order for 

 them, but not later than the middle of March. The Al- 

 Iringham are the best sort for cattle. 



POTATOES. A useful crop for consumption in the 

 house and on the farm ; but beyond that, being a very 

 exhausting crop, I cannot think that a system of cultivating 

 any great quantity can be a good one, except in the vicinity 

 of large towns, where there is a sure sale for them, and, 



