324 CARRots. 



SECT. XV. — CARROTS. 



It is a remarkable circumstance, tliat carrots should have 

 been an article of common cultivation, in a distridl of Suf- 

 folk, few more than 200 years, and yet that so valuable a 

 crop should not, in all that time, have travelled into this 

 neighbouring county, uhere there are such great quan- 

 tities of land so perfecStly adapted to the husbandry. 



Forty years ago, Mr. Fellowes, at Shottesham, cul- 

 tivated carrots with much success : he got 600 bushels per 

 acre, which were used for horses and cows : the former 

 never did better, and the butter from the latter, of superior 

 quality. 



They were pretty much cultivated more than thirty 

 years ago, between Norwich and Yarmouth — nearer to 

 the former ; the farmers trench -ploughed for tliem, an<l 

 sowed in February ; hoed in two months after ; thrice in 

 all, at a guinea an acre, and barley succeeded. 



Mr. Woodbine cultivated carrots at Packsfield, near 

 Rainham, a farm of Marquis Townshend's, success- 

 fully ; giving his labourers 5s. 3d. per last of 84 bushels, 

 for digging, topping, heaping, and loading : he tried them 

 in fatting 30 hogs; and weighing one fairly chosen, and 

 again after twenty 28 days, found he had gained three 

 stone lib. paving 2s. a week. They were sold to drovers 

 for the London market : he then put up 40 more, giving 

 some pease with the carrots, which made better flesh. 



Mr. FoRBY, of Fincham, for some years kept carrots 

 without suffering from the severest frosts, by forming a 

 platform of earth, six inches above the level and two feet 

 and a half wide ; on this a sprinkling of dry straw, and 

 then a row of carrots, with their tops all on, and turned 



outwards. 



