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Globe, Purple-top. and Cow Horn, are all good varieties for 



field culture. 



EUTA Bagas are more valuable for stock than turnips, and 

 are raised with more difficulty. They require a stronger soil, 

 but substantially the same culture as turnips. They should be 

 sown earlier, say about the middle of June, or first of July, at 

 the latest. Theie are some twelve or fifteen different varieties 

 in cultivation, but there appears to be no satisfactory decision 

 as to which are the best. 



The Mangold is adapted to a wide range of cultivation, and 

 a great variety of soils. The seed should be sown in May ; in 

 other respects the cultivation is the same as with the other root 

 crops. The Long Eed and Long Yellow are the best for deep 

 soils, and the Globes for shallow soils. 



Carrots, we judge, all things considered, to be the best of 

 all the root crops for the soil and for feeding, but the assertion 

 that they are worth as much, bushel for bushel, as oats, is a 

 simple absurdity. No farmer can afford to let his stock be 

 without roots, but they can never take the place of grain. 

 They are to be used in connection with gram. They are best 

 suited with a warm light soil, Avell cultivated, as all soils for 

 root crops should be. The land for carrots and for mangolds 

 should be plowed as early as possible. Only thoroughly de- 

 composed manure will do for carrots. The seed should be sown 

 the last of May, or first of June. Plow, cross-plow, and harrow 

 at intervals, before sowing. It does the weeding in advance. 

 A field thus worked before sowing, will not only grow more 

 and better roots, but with one third the labor of weeding. 

 Carrots can be raised by almost any farmer for six cents a 

 bushel, after he learns the most economical ways of domg it. 

 We shall speak of these things under the head of General Cul- 

 tivation of Koot Crops. The tops of carrots, if cut while they 



