5^ CULTURE OF CARROTS. 



far beyond general expectation that of the grazing land, 

 only inferior which will in conscquence be appropriated to great national 

 ^'*«*** advantage, by furnishing an additional supply of animal 



food, of wool, and the produceof the dairy. 



A red loamy sand is at all times to be preferred, as free 

 P f Me Soil ^**^™ stones as possible; but very large crops may be grown 

 on any land, which is not of a too tenacious or binding 

 quality, with sufficient depth of soil. 



In order to increase the luxuriance of the root, it is ne* 

 To be ploughed cessary to remove the soil to the depth of 14 inches : this 

 ^* is easily accomplished, by first ploughing the furrow seven 



inches deep in the usual manner, then follow with the 

 second plough in the same furrow, which, by the assistance 

 of an additional horse, brings up the soil from the depth 

 required. The first plough continues to turn the fresh 

 furrow to the bottom of the double furrow, and being fol- 

 lowed by the double furrow, as in the first instance, the 

 soil becomes completely mixed and ready for the reception 

 of the seed. 



The first furrow is seven inches deep, and is removed 

 into the t. 



second furrow, of fourteen inches deep ; this in rotation 

 becomes the first stratum. 



The lands, or stitches cannot be too wide, from 18 to 25 

 yards. 



It is necessary to observe, the land at all times on which 

 this crop is intended to be produced, should be in a per- 

 fectly clean state; a barley stubble which succeeded a 

 fallow, 4cc. Yet few crops turn out more productive than 

 those cultivated on clover, or lays of artificial grasses ; 

 ploughing the same as on a barley stubble. 



A rule which in most instances holds goodi must not 



imm^'iatd7a^ ^«^re be neglected, that of getting in the seed directly after 



ter ploughing, the ploughs ; a neglect of this would be attended with the 



worst consequences ; on stale land the weeds would, in a 



short time, completely get the better of the young plants, 



and thereby occasion a great deficiency in the crop. 



Five 



Sowing to be 



