THE PENINSULA FARMERS' CLUB. 467 



Mr. John Franklin. — I drilled in one rod of the Long Orange carrots on 

 unmanured land. I hoed them well, and when they began to root, loosened the 

 ground about them by sinking a spade full depth along the rows. I sowed the 

 seed in the last days of June, and the ground yielded at the rate of 960 bushels 

 to the acre. 



Mr. Pratt. — Mr. Lardie says plow very deep for roots. He esteems this es- 

 sential to success. I put some in early, but the cut-worms took them. 



Mr. Parmelee. — Mr. Franklin's carrots were put in weeks later than is usual 

 here. This may be an important fact. 



Mr. E. Wait. — I had 800 bushels to the acre of carrots. They were put in 

 late in June. My ground was plowed twice to destroy weeds. They were put 

 in late partly on that account. 



Mr. Pratt. — My carrots were up before these were planted. 



Mr. Franklin. — There were worms in abundance early in the spring, but 

 none when I planted. The ground was June sod the year before and planted 

 to potatoes. The plowing for carrots brought the rotton sod to the surface. 



Mr. Drew. — My experience in raising roots teaches me that the ground must 

 be kept thoroughly clean. If this is done the worms leave. Ducks in the 

 garden at least are a valuable help to keep down the worms. 



Mr. Wait. — Mr. Langdon of Elk Rapids put on one-half of his garden com- 

 mon salt. The other half was treated in tlie usual way. On the first half there 

 were no worms ; the other half was destroyed by them. He proposes to apply 

 salt to the whole piece the coming season. 



Mr. Parmelee. — A very effectual method of preventing injury to buds on 

 young trees is to place about the trunk a strip of very stiff paper, say four 

 inches wide, folded funnel shape, the upper end firmly and closely secured to 

 the trunk. The worms will go into this funnel, but are not able to crawl down 

 its inner surface and so over it to the young buds. 



Mr. Brinkman. — I think Mr. Hedden had some peach trees protected in this 

 way several years ago, but the worms girdled the trees. 



Mr. Parmelee. — They must have been very hungry indeed. I have practiced 

 this method with success for years. 



Mr. Brinkman. — Coarse straw around young trees effectually prevents the 

 ravages of the cut-worm. Before we leave the subject, let me say that after 

 repeated experiments I am satisfied carrots are a surer crop than ruta-bagas. 

 Even grasshoppers trouble them but little, and they keep longer than most 

 other vegetables. I have fed them until June. The mistake we make is, we 

 plant them too early. Plow the ground, let the weeds come up, plow the ground 

 again, say middle of June, and before another crop of weeds come up the car- 

 rots have the start of them. I have raised seventy bushels on sixteen square 

 rods : the variety White Belgian. If you cultivate them by hand twenty inches 

 is far enough between the rows. 



Mr. E. Wait. — I plant mine two and one-half feet between rows, so as to plow. 



Mr. Drew. — We have raised 175 bushels of carrots on one-fifth of an acre. 



Mr. Pratt. — I have pitted 100 bushels together and they kept well. 



Mr. Reese. — In Wales I have known 1,000 bushels put together on the sur- 

 face of the ground, and covered with straw and earth, but in the spring they 

 were full of fibrous roots. 



Mr. Parmelee. — I keep the long blood beet over winter in an ordinary cellar, 

 piling them up like wood, end for end. They don't heat, nor wilt, nor grow; 

 and in the spring they are crisp and good. 



