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be grasped by the band, but they are more brittle than most 

 other varieties. Tliey are more liable to injury from prema- 

 ture frost than tliose varieties which grow buried in the soil. 

 The Improved Long Orange is a large, rich, hardy variety, 

 but grows so deep it is difficult to thin out and requires extra 

 labor in digging. For table use, in garden culture, the Early 

 Short Horn is always to be preferred, excelling all other 

 varieties in delicacy of flesh and flavor. Carrots may bo 

 buried in pits or stored in a cool cellar, but kept from severe 

 frost. For table use cover with dry sand to prevent shrivel- 

 ling or place in barrels and cover with potatoes. 



Feeding Carrots. — I think I have found more benefit from 

 carrots when fed to horses than to other animals. For calves 

 and milch cows they are first rate; swine eat them freely, and 

 indeed there is no other root so generally relished and eaten 

 without education by all animals as the carrot. 



With proper manuring they may be grown successfully for 

 many years on the same field, and we have known this prac- 

 tice adopted with advantage on farms where rotation was not 

 convenient. Clear off the rocks, drain if necessary, and 

 subsoil, keep out the seeds of weeds, and fine crops can be 

 raised even on our stubborn hills. Five hundred bushels per 

 acre is a good crop, but one thousand can be raised with care 

 upon good soil. 



We have advised to sow mangolds and sugar-beets early, 

 but some say that the young plants are liable to be killed by 

 frost. The self sown beets that spring up in the garden 

 where seed has been raised never seem to suffer in this way 

 by moderate frost, and we have never had a crop injured by 

 frost. Plant carrots and ruta-bagas shallow, from one half 

 inch to one inch deep, according to the character of the soil ; 

 beets and mangolds deeper, from one to three inches. 



Mangolds and sugar beets require a space of twenty-four 

 to thirty inclics between the rows and ten to fifteen inches in 

 the row. They come up somewhat irregularly from tlic drill 

 as the capsules are of unequal size, and some of them contain 

 several seeds. An instrument like a large rake head with 

 teeth at proper distances may be used for making the holes, 



