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 The beft way of taking them up is with 

 a three-pronged fork, they mould be 

 thrown into heaps, or left Scattered about 

 (if the weather will admit) to dry, and then 

 carted home ; there the tops Ihould be cut 

 off and thrown to any cattle : all will cat 

 them greedily, efpecially hogs : The roots 

 cleared from dirt and laid up in any room, 

 houfe, or barn, furrounded well with flraw 

 to keep them from the frofts. Horfes may 

 be fed with them all winter inftead of oats, 

 and will do their work as well, provided 

 it is not riding quick: They mould be 

 warned clean, chopt in pieces in a tub 

 with a Iharp fpade, and given in chaff : I 

 kept fix horfes fo one winter ; they were 

 worked very hard, and flood it as well as 

 they ufed to do with oats : Oxen will fat 

 on them mod excellently ; they Ihould 

 have them in mangers, with a little hay 

 now and then in the rack ; and kept clean 

 littered with flraw, which will make plenty 

 of manure. For iheep they mould be 

 fcattered about a dry grafs field, and will 

 be ready for them in March or S/pri/, when 

 turnips and all other food are gone. No- 

 thing is better for hogs ; fows will bring 

 up large litters of pigs by this root; and 

 pigs may be weaned upon them. 



An acre of good carrots will meafure 

 about 300 bufhels, and the farmer will find 



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