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crops, applies with equal force to carrots. The plants come up 

 small and weak, and prompt and vigorous work will be necessary 

 to save them from the weeds. It is best to sow rather early, as 

 the seed will not bear deep covering, and if planting is post- 

 poned till the sun is hot and the ground dry, it is difficult to 

 get a stand. Sow in rows fifteen inches apart, and thin to 

 three or four inches in the row. One and a half to two pounds 

 of good seed per acre is all that will be needed. The Short 

 Horn is recommended by Mr. Gregory, and the particular strain 

 known as the Danvers as the best. It is of a rich dark orange 

 color, smooth, and handsome, and much easier to dig than the 

 long Orange. On good soil, with thorough culture, from twenty 

 to forty tons per acre are grown, or from four to eight hundred 

 bushels. 



The same implements and general cultivation that is recom- 

 mended for onions will suit for carrots, except that while the 

 cultivation of onions should always be shallow, deep culture is 

 beneficial to the carrot. I use a long, narrow bull-tongue, which 

 will work six inches or more in depth, and find no difficulty in 

 driving a gentle horse in a fifteen-inch row. The growing of 

 roots of all the varieties mentioned calls for high farming. 

 The land must not only be rich and clean, but help must be 

 plenty, and the work done at the right time and well done. 

 With these conditions fulfilled, these crops will prove profitable ; 

 but without them, vexation and loss will result. 



Artichokes. I have one very important direction to give 

 on the subject of planting artichokes, and it is embodied in one 

 word DON'T. I planted two bushels four years ago, and have 

 cropped the land ever since, growing corn, wheat, and vines on 

 it, and have failed to kill them out. I did not find them profit- 

 able or palatable for stock, and would as soon recommend the 

 planting of Canada Thistles. 



