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On the White or Belgian Carrot. 



prize-crop also^ which he had cultivated experimentally^ gave 

 him 524 lbs. to the perch, or nearly 38 tons to the acre — an 

 enormous crop," he adds, " which, if equally valuable for butter 

 as the parsnip, will of course supersede it, as his parsnip-crop in 

 the same field, cultivated alike, only produced 16 J tons, which, 

 nevertheless, was a very fair crop." 



Ph. Pusey. 



V. — On the Early Horn-Carrot. By Lord Ducie. 



My dear Pusey, 

 I send you, as you desired, an account of the early horn-carrots 

 grown on my Hill Farm, at Woodchester. The land on which 

 they were grown is a stone brach, on the table-land at the top of 

 Frocester Hill, and certainly not land apparently likely to grow 

 carrots of any sort. 



I should first state that the early horn- carrots are about five or 

 six inches long, and as thick as a man's fist ; and have been gene- 

 rally grown only as garden carrots. 



The field in which they were grown was a clean wheat-stubble, 

 which was ploughed 5 inches deep (the full depth of the soil), in 

 December ; a Biddle's scarifier was put over the land twice pre- 

 vious to the seed being sown on the 22nd of March, without any 

 manure. The seed was well-mixed with 2 or 3 bushels of ashes ; 

 and sown with a Suffolk drill, with 12 inches between the rows. 



The quantity produced was 263 lbs. a perch; or 18 tons 15cwt. 

 per acre. The expense of cultivation and harvesting amounted 

 to about 6/. per acre. 



The land on which these carrots were grown will not, with the 

 best cultivation, bear on an average so much as 14 ton of Swedes 

 to the acre. 



Carrots are this year worth more than 3Z. a load in this neigh- 

 bourhood : 2/. is their general price. They are undoubtedly an 

 excellent food for fatting sheep, particularly when used with 

 bean-meal. I am therefore so satisfied with the early horn- 

 carrots that I shall grow them more extensively next year. 



I should add, that a few drills of Altringhams were sown, which 

 broke in the harvesting, and did not produce so much by 7 lbs. 

 a perch. 



Believe me yours truly, 



Ducie. 



Anvpney, Dec, 4, 1840. 



