€0 CULTURE OF CARROTS. 



. ^ The season for sowing, is from the middle of March to 

 In tructions for the 12»h <>f April. In dry weather it is best Jo leave the 

 tre C.limc ot jjpj.(J rollrd down. The land should ahva\s be harrowed 

 aftif drilling or sowing ; from the nature of the plant, a 

 pulvcriaiitipn of.lhe si il is requisite. It is, however, useless 

 to detail particulars of this sort, which must in so material 

 a degree depend on the sta e of the season, in which the 

 judgmtnt of the practical farmer cannot easily fail ; suffice 

 it to say, the lighter, the finer, and the less binding the soil, 

 the Utttr vegetation must flourish. 



With respect to the best method of cleansing the young 

 crop, I have only to observe, that nine times in ten it an- 

 swers better to weed by hand, than to hoe the fir&t time; 

 this rehts on a supposition, that the crop is much encum- 

 bered by weeds; on the contrary, (which is rarely the case) 

 supposmg it perfectly clean, the hoe will answer every pur» 

 pose requi'-ite. Thcie is great judgement to be observed in 

 the first hoeing, particularly to jcave the plants sufficiently 

 thick, an> not to bury them in the process; should this be 

 done, your f.irest prrspects will at once vanish. The wo- 

 men and children employed to weed, should not be suffered 

 to pull a single carrot plant j the hoe effects the purpose of 

 setting out in a superior manner, and should within two or 

 three days follow the wecders I have frequently seen the 

 land so much covered with weeds, that the plant of carrots 

 was extremely doubtful; after hand-wecdipg, a very good 

 plant was seen, which would have been destroyed in great 

 measure, had the hoe been previously used. One weeding 

 and two hoeings are generally sufficient; by the time they 

 are accomplished, the carrot tops generally are of sufficient 

 growth so sh^de the land. The proper hoe, to be made use 

 of should be 4 inches wide, by 1| inch high, and always 

 kept very sharp. 



Canots, like turnips, and other vegetables intended to be 

 housed for winter, should not be taken up before they are 

 full grown'; they never answer better than when used from 

 one to four weeks after they are out of the ground. They 

 are little liable to injury in winter ; the latest time for tak* 



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