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the general fallow crop, yet carrots ought 

 undoubtedly to be directly introduced lb as 

 every farmer to have a field of them every 

 year; for this purpofe, I fhould advife 

 thole who attempted the culture, to purlue 

 It nearly upon the following plan. 



The corn Hubble to be ploughed in 

 fometime in the autumn ; by two ploughs 

 in the fame furrow, to the depth of 18 

 inches : Another common ploughing be- 

 fore Chriflmas ; and to plough and low the 

 latter end of February, or the beginning of 

 March, according to the weather, but never 

 when the land is wet or adhefive. After 

 this laft ploughing, to be harrowed fine and 

 level, and then fix pounds of carrot feed 

 to be fown at four or five cafts over each 

 acre of land, and lightly harrowed in. 

 When the plants are about three or four 

 inches high, or in other words, to be feen 

 plainly in the hoeing, they mould have 

 that operation for the firft time ; for which 

 purpofe, a dry feafon muff be taken, and 

 many hands thrown in at once for the 

 chance of finifhing before rain comes, 

 which would fet the weeds again. The 

 people employed mould all crawl along on 

 their knees, if the young carrots are thickly 

 furrounded with weeds, their hoes four 

 inches wide, and the handles 18 inches 

 long; but if the land is clean, and the 



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