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IV. — On White Carrots. By Sir Charles Burrell. 
Having now received my bailiff's explanations I may yet be in time to 
make the desired statement respecting my culture and use of white 
cattle carrots. In the spring of 1843, 5 acres were sown, of which 
4i acres with white and i an acre with red Altringham carrots, to test 
their worth against the white — some seedsmen having asserted that they 
would answer equally well, perhaps from having great difficulty in sup- 
plying the demand for the white carrot seed, which was very scarce in 
the spring of 1843 : the sowing of the Altringham was unsuccessful, as 
also i an acre of land sown with the white, consequently I had only 
4 acres, producing 1200 bushels per acre, or in the whole 4800 bushels; 
with these twenty-four fatting beasts were fed, adding equal quantities 
of swede turnips (both sliced by a machine), together with hay and oil- 
cake up to the month of April, 1844. For my cart-horses, twenty in 
number, about 10 lbs. of white carrots were used with a little corn and 
hay, from November, 1843, to the following April j and the carrots were 
further applied in feeding twenty-four cows and two bulls to the same 
period, wiih reri/ great economy of lunj. 
The land for carrots was dressed with sea-weed trenched into the 
ground in the autumn previous to frosty weather. The carrots were 
sown in April, and my bailiff's observation leads to the conclusion that 
carrots do not draw the ground more than swede turnips. In preparing 
for a crop of swedes, however, we necessarily dress the land well ; whereas 
for carrots we seldom dress the ground, sowing them generally after 
wheat, or after oats and seeds. In fact this season I have a very pro- 
mising crop of flax after carrots without any dressing. 
The land which last year bure carrots is now in fallow for wheat. In 
preparation for carrots deep trenching is much preferable to ploughing, 
however deep, the crops being better ; and this season the preference for 
drilling carrots over, sowing broadcast, is very evident. 
Having stated tliat the introduction of white carrot culture econo- 
mised hay, I proceed to offer proofs as follow : 
In 1842 — 238 acres of seeds and grass produced 200 loads of hay; 
and when hay-making commenced in 1843 I had about 50 loads of old 
hay only in reserve. 
In 1843 — 260 acres of seeds and grass produced 505 loads of hay, 
besides 21 acres of clover, producing 19 loads; and I had about 
400 loads of hay in reserve when hay-making commenced in 1844. 
Showing a beneficial reserve of hay, chiefly to be attributed to the 
united effects of a very good crop of hay in 1843, and the reduction of 
its consumption by the use of white cattle carrots, grown to considerable 
perfection on clay land in the weald of Sussex, a soil which, without 
thorough go^d and frequent under-drainage, combined with a high state 
of cultivation, offers no hope of growing a crop of good swede turnips. 
July 4tk, 1844. 
N.B. Carrot-seed is very easily saved by transplanting some of the 
carrots of smaller size into portions of gardens, where not liable to 
injury by rabbits or hares. 
