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the feeds are Town, they mu ft be gently harrowed In to 
bury them; and when the plants come up, they fliould 
be hoed in the manner before directed. 
In order to preferve carrots for ufe all the winter and 
fpring, they fhould be dug up about the beginning of No¬ 
vember, when the green leaves are decayed, and laid in 
fand in a dry place, where the frolt cannot come to them. 
If any are to be faved for feed, referve forne of the longeft 
and draighteft roots ; plant them the middle of February 
in a light foil, about afoot afunder each way ; and about 
the middle of Auguft, when the feeds are ripe, cut off 
the Italics, expofe them to the fun and air for feveral 
days in a dry place, beat out the feeds, put it up in bags, 
and keep it in a dry place until you ufe it. This feed is 
feldom edeemed good after the firfi or fecond year at 
mofl; but new feed is always preferred, nor will it grow 
when it is more than two years old. 
The field culture of carrots is bed carried on in a trad! 
of Suffolk, called, from the nature of its foil, the Sand- 
hngs ; it is a triangle with Woodbridge, Bawdfey-clifF, 
and Orford, at the three angles. They fow five pounds 
of feed to the acre on a double furrow about fourteen 
inches deep. The time of {'owing is about Lady-day ; 
and they begin to hoe at Whitfuntide. They give three 
hoeings in all, which cod from fifteen to eighteen {hil¬ 
lings an acre, fometimes more. Ten loads, of forty 
bufhels each, topped clean, on an acre, in good land, is 
reckoned to be a middling crop. They feed with them 
from before Chridmas, and continue fometimes till Whit¬ 
funtide; taking them up and holding them in the latter 
part of the feafon, to have the land clear for barley {ow¬ 
ing. The time of fowing among the fandy-field garden¬ 
ers is the fird week in March ; others fow in the middle, 
and others again at the. end of March ; but the time mud 
be regulated in fome meafure by the feafon, and the con¬ 
venience of the farmer. The time of fowing is by fome 
extended trom the beginning of February to the end of 
April; but this is too wide a range, if it can be avoided. 
New feed will come up a week fooner than that which is 
old ; and the crop depends very much upon having good 
feed. Miller recommends only a pound and a half of 
feed to be fown on an acre ; but this is certainly too lit¬ 
tle. On the Sandlings we have feen that they have fown 
five pounds ; others fow eight, ten, and even twelve, 
pounds, which is in general wading feed. The common 
rule for the fird hoeing is feven weeks after the feed is 
fown, or in general the beginning or middle of May; 
the fecond the middle of June ; fomewhat fooner or later, 
according to the date of the crop. The ufual produce 
on poor lands is 200, and on good land 400, bufhels. We 
have had accounts of 250, 300, 312, 326, 340, 352, 36S, 
400, 460, 482/and even 640, and 700, bufhels produced 
from an acre; but let the hufbandman always beware of 
calculating on great crops, which are commonly pro¬ 
duced on a fmall fcale, or on very rich land, or by extra¬ 
ordinary tillage and manuring, or by fome unforefeen 
fortunate circumdances. 
For preferving carrots during winter feveral methods 
are prefcribed. Soonafter Michaelmas, in dry weather, 
they may be taken up with a common dung-fork, and 
piled up or dacked in a corner of the field, in the following 
manner. Lay a platform of earth fix inches deep above 
the level, two feet and a half wide, and of a length pro¬ 
portioned to the quantity of the crop, fuppofe from ten 
to twenty yards. On this earth fcatter a flight layer of 
draw. On this place a row of carrots, with their tops 
on and turned outwards; the tails lapping over one ano¬ 
ther, fo that the width covered with carrots is about two 
feet. Top the fmall roots, and lay them in the middle 
crolfwife, to keep the two tides from parting, by preding 
the weight more on the center. On every two or three 
rows fcatter a little draw, and thus continue to build up 
about tour feet high : then cover the tops carefully with 
dry draw, and lay fome ledge or other coarfe material 
over all, by way of thatch. Then begin another line, 
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parallel to the fird, jud leaving room to pafs between 
them ; and fo continue till the whole crop is taken up. 
Fill the alleys with dry draw, and guard the outfide with 
bundles of draw daked down, or fet fad with hurdles, 
to prevent the wind from removing the draw and cover¬ 
ing. Others, having taken them up in dry days in Octo¬ 
ber, put them direitly into fmall upright cocks of fen 
bufhels each, entirely covered, with the tops cut od'; 
and being thus dried, carry them into a barn or died, 
throwing fome draw over them, but taking care not to 
pack them too clofe. Or they may be left in the cocks, 
well covered over with draw or fern till they are quite 
dry, and then protedbed with earth, beat fmooth with a 
fpade. Some twid od’ the tops with the hand; and others 
take off half an inch of the roots to prevent them from 
fprouting : but thefe attentions can only be hedowed on 
fmall crops. If they are barrelled up with very dry fand, 
after being previoufly well dried, they may be preferved 
a confiderable time at fea. In the Sandlings, the practice 
is to take up the carrots as they are wanted, only keep¬ 
ing a dore beforehand in cafe of frod ; thus, however, 
in fome years many rot on the ground. 
Long experience has now confirmed what Mr. Miller 
aderts, that carrots are a hearty food for dieep, cattle, 
horfes, hogs, and deer, particularly for horfes ; they may 
alfo be applied to feeding hounds and pointers when 
boiled, and mixed with milk and barley-meal. Carrots 
are alfo an excellent preparation for barley, in fands and 
fandy loams, that are not foul with quich or fpear-grafs ; 
for in fuch lands the hoeing for carrots increafes rather 
than dedroys the quich, by hacking it in pieces. No 
crop can be better for fuch lands, when clean, than car¬ 
rots ; becaufe it admits no fummer ploughing whatever, 
and it is put in on one earth given with a trench-plough 
in March ; fo that as much tenacity is given to thefe na¬ 
turally loofe foils as podible. The crop may be left late 
in the ground; and, if the foil be very fandy, a crop of 
buck-wheat may follow, for which any degree of clean¬ 
ing from quich may be given, if necelfary. 
Mr. Miller’s directions for ploughing are fuitable to 
diffland, which is not fuitable to carrots. 
A very good fpirit may alfo be diddled from carrots, 
and the refufe will be excellent for feeding hogs. One 
ton eight Itone, after being expofed a few days to dry, 
weighed 160 done, and meafured forty-two bulhels. Af¬ 
ter being wadied, topped, and tailed, they lod in weight 
eleven done, in meafure feven budiels. From this quan¬ 
tity, fifty, gallons were drawn off; thefe were rectified, 
and twelve gallons of unexceptionable fpirit were ob¬ 
tained. The refufe weighed forty-eight done, and the 
wadi from the dill meafured 112 gallons: fo that tire 
refufe greatly exceeds that of an acre of barley. And an 
acre of carrots, allowing the produce to be twenty tons, 
will produce 240 gallons of fpirit ; which is confiderably 
more than can be obtained from five quarters of barley. 
But the produce of an acre ought not to be laid at more 
than from ten to fourteen tons ; and therefore the quan¬ 
tity of fpirit from an acre of carrots will not exceed 168 
gallons. 
Carrot-feed has been for many years raifed at Wea- 
thersfield in Ed'ex, perhaps becaufe it polfedes two foils 
bed adapted to this culture; rich fand to raife the car¬ 
rots the fird year, and drong loam for the year of feed¬ 
ing. The preparation of the foil confids in making it 
very fine by repeated ploughings and harrowings; u fili¬ 
ally three or four earths are given ; and the feed, twenty 
pounds an acre, apparently an unnecedary quantity, fown 
in April. They hand-hoe twice, fetting the plants out 
feven inches afunder. At Michaelmas they dig up, cut 
off the tops to the length of an inch, and pack up the 
roots in barns with draw, taking care that they are 
dry enough when laid up ; fecuring them is a work of 
fome difficulty, for air mud have accefs to them, and yet 
frod mud be excluded. The crops are large; a good 
produce is three bulhels on a rod, but four have been 
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