162 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. Ware. Yes. The lifting principle of the plough is on the 

 right-hand side, and that just lifts the carrots out of their beds. 

 You must be sure to go deep enough to reach the carrots. 

 Sometimes the plough will run a little too low, and break off the 

 tips of the carrot, but that we do not regard as of any conse- 

 quence. 



The variety of the carrot is very important. I liked very 

 much the remarks of the gentleman with regard to seed. We 

 think the whole success of our crop depends upon the seed we 

 sow, and we invariably raise our own seed ; or, if by any 

 accident we fail, we go to a neighbor, whose crop we know 

 about, and depend upon him. The last resort of all is the seed 

 store. We have a carrot, by the way, that is a slight variation 

 from the long orange carrot, so-called, that sometimes grows 

 very long, and the short-horned carrot, which is rather short ; 

 though the horned carrot, I believe, will produce about as large 

 a crop as the orange carrot. It is a heavier root, so that twenty- 

 five bushels of the horned carrot will usually make a ton, while 

 forty bushels of the orange carrot are required to make the 

 same weight. Therefore, if we don't get so much bulk with the 

 horned carrot as with the orange, we get an equal weight, which 

 we most desire. 



With regard to storing carrots, we think it is very important 

 to avoid harvesting root crops until as late in the season as 

 possible. I myself usually commence about the 1st of Novem- 

 ber, feeling that it is safe to risk the roots in the ground until 

 the 10th or 12th of November. I don't like to be caught with 

 my roots in the ground later than that, although oftentimes it 

 would be safe to leave them in later. As far as my experience 

 goes, it is safe to risk them until that time ; and by putting 

 them into the cellar as late as possible, heat is avoided. Of 

 course we have to stow them in large bulk, and if it is warm 

 weather, they will sweat and grow and rot in the cellar. There- 

 fore I put off getting them in as late as possible, and after they 

 are in the cellar, I am very careful, on cold nights, to open the 

 windows and scuttle-doors, to get as much air in the cellar as 

 possible ; and if we have a warm rain, I close the cellar up as 

 tightly as possible to avoid that ; and in that way, I usually 

 manage to keep my crops without heating at all. Ruta-baga 

 turnips are more liable to heat, I believe, than almost anything 



