Jl7/i/cr Keeping — Carrots. 



Late cabbages are usually grown as a second crop, 

 following peas or something similar in culture ; or 

 they may be set on newly turned land which has been 

 in early grain or grass. It is not generally necessary 

 to apply as much manure as for the early crop ; 

 twelve cords is usually an abundant dressing, espe- 

 cially where they follow some other crop which has 

 been well manured the same season. 



To keep cabbage through the winter, commence by 

 making a small bank, say about one and a half feet 

 high, in some sheltered locality. Pull the cabbage, 

 and place the heads against the bank in a row as close 

 as they can stand ; then turn up the earth with the plow 

 against the row. Be careful not to cover the head, but 

 make the earth firm around the roots. Then with a 

 shovel square down the bank thus made, and place 

 another row: this will be about eight or ten inches 

 from the first, and so continue until the whole are 

 set out. Another wav is to place the cabbages head 

 downwards on the ground, and cover the heads and 

 stumps with dirt, then adding hay or something similar 

 to keep out the frost. This protection should also be 

 given in banking up by the other method. Put on 

 enough to be sure that they will not freeze solid. If 

 frozen about half through, they are not injured, and will 

 keep quite well. Some have houses where they store 

 the cabbages, placing them head down on the shelf, 

 laying them as close as possible, and only one deep. 

 The temperature is kept at about the freezing point. 



Carrot {Daiicus carota) is perhaps more properly to 

 be called a farm crop • still, to some extent, it is grown by 



