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CARROTS. 
fangs of the machine, thus gaging the distance, and so 
in succession till the whole is completed ; the seed is 
covered in by hand raking. Considerable attention is 
necessary in the sowing, otherwise there Avill be vacant 
places j the hoeing and cleaning is performed by 
hand, at about a guinea-and-a-half per acre; turnips 
generally follow this crop ; they are given to horses, 
or other live stock occasionally, or otherwise sold to 
the market people, wholesale at 2s 6d. per hundred 
weight, who fetch them away, and carry them to Bir¬ 
mingham, Stourbridge, or the populous parts of Staf¬ 
fordshire, A good average crop will produce fifteen 
tons per acre, which, as above, amounts per acre to 
37k 10s. the soil is a deep sandy loam; about four 
pounds of seed is sown to an acre. 
Mr. Knight has sometimes sown carrots after turnips, 
and thinks they succeed better than on turf land trench- 
ploughed ; but his steward observed to me, that upon 
pulverized land, though apparently clean, being of 
slow growth from the seed, they are so apt to be 
choaked by weeds, especially in wet seasons, and so 
difficult to keep clean, that he prefers turf land trench- 
ploughed ; in either case the land should be as clean 
as possible, and the richer the better; some of his 
neighbours sow a few acres, generally broadcast mixed 
with sand; the seed has been mixed and sown with 
brewer’s grains, to sprout it hefore sowing, and occa¬ 
sion a quick growth, and this method is supposed to 
answer. Mr. Honeybourn, at Pishley, Leicestershire, 
assured me, that he had perfectly succeeded in sowing 
carrot seed by Cooke’s drill, being first well rubbed, 
and intimately mixed with saw-dnst sifted, the ladles 
of the drill will then take up and regularly deliver it j 
^nd he desired me to recommend this to Mr. Knight, 
and 
