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seeds should become encrusted; they might then probably 

 be managed successfully in a small hand drill- machine, 

 which may be easily contrived tor the purpose. 



The first hoeing of drill-rows, after ploughing between 

 them, n. quires considerable hand-labor; after which it may 

 be performed almost entirely by the horse-hoe or cultivator. 

 (See HORSE-HOE.) The rows are to be thined, so that the 

 carrots when grown will be about an inch apart 



The best way to keep carrots through the Winter, for 

 family use, is to bury them in moist sand. In this way, 

 they may also be kept for. feeding out to Horses, Cows, 

 Hogs, Sheep, Sec, and a cellar for the purpose might be 

 made in a side-hill, covered with earth, and otherwise for- 

 tified against the frost, to be sufficiently warm for that 

 purpose. 



For the best method of boiling carrots for feeding Hogs, 

 Sec. see STEAM BOILER. 



CATERPILLARS. See INSECTS. 



CATTLE. See Ass, FOALS, &c. GOATS, HORSE, MARES, 

 NEAT-CATTLE, SHEEP, and SWINE. 



CHANGE AND IMPROVEMENT OF SEEDS. 

 Most plants are found to degenerate to a certain degree, 

 unless their seeds are frequently changed. This has been 

 attributed to their cultivation in climates where they are 

 not indigenous. But this can hardly be the sole reason ; for 

 it is found that most plants will be improved, by having the 

 seeds brought from the east to the west, and -vice versa. 



Providence, in making so large a world as this, seems to 

 have designed that there should, nevertheless, be a common 

 acquaintance among the Nations which inhabit it. They 

 are invited abroad, for conveniences which their own cli- 

 mates do not furnish; they are impeled to a general inter- 

 mixture, from a knowledge that is is beneficial ; and the 

 benefits, to be derived from a change of seeds, are probably 

 only in furtherance of the general design of a Community 

 among Nations. 



But w<- cire yet much in the dark, as it respects the best 

 changes of seeds, and from what parts of the world they 

 should be brought, to produce the greatest crops. Ought 

 not this to become a matter of more general concern I The 

 Irish Farmers sow our flaxseed, and find great account in 

 it. Would their fluxseed be equally beneficial, when sown 

 here? We have known flaxseed brought fom Longisland, 

 and sown in Orange county, which produced nearly double 

 the crop which the common seed there produced. Spring- 

 wheat brought from Canada, and sown here (Hsrkimer 



