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ris, or live ashes, or both, or with a dry loam, and 

 strew your seed in the rows so as to have them fall at 

 the distance of 3 or 4 inches apart; this will give 

 them room to grow without crowding, so as to obtain 

 a good size. If you mix a small quantity of onion- 

 seed with your carrot-seed, the onions will come for- 

 ward first, and assist in finding the young carrots at 

 the first weeding; they will also serve for early fami- 

 ly use without injury to the carrots. The carrot 

 must be kept perfectly clean, and free from weeds 

 through the season ; 3, 4, or 5 hoeings and weedings 

 will be necessary, and in October, they may be dug 

 with the spide, or dung-fork : 500 bushels to the 

 acre is a good crop, and I have known 2500 bushels 

 to be raised upon an acre, or in that ratio. The car- 

 rot is worth 2s. when given raw to hogs, cattle, sheep 

 and cows, or 2s6 when boiled, or steamed, and 

 mixed with bran ; no feed makes richer pork, beef, 

 mutton, or butter and cheese, than the carrot. The 

 same culture is required for beets and parsnips. 



Mangel Wurtzel, or Scarcity Root. 



This root requires the same culture as the carrot, 

 but as it grows much larger, it is necessary to place 

 the seeds in the rows at the distance of about six 

 inches, and whenrthe roots have obtained a good size 

 in July, and August, you may begin to pluck the un- 

 der leaves as feed for your hogs and cows, without 

 injury to the roots ; if you begin to pluck upon one 

 side of your patch, say one rood, you may have, 

 from the time as above, a regular succession of pluck- 

 ing through the season ; for by the time you have 

 gone over the patch, the roots first plucked, will be 

 ready to be plucked again, and so on. This food is 

 very nutritious, and may become a profitable saving 

 of your corn. The value of the roots you may ex- 

 perience in your winter's feeding, either for hogs, 

 sheep, cattle, or cows, the same as the carrot, or they 

 may be kept over until spring, as you choose. Thi c 



