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skinning. I will here state what has been my conviction for 

 years, that the carrot does best on the same ground for several 

 years in succession, and all that induced me to change the crop 

 for corn, in 1849, was to regulate some young apple trees, the 

 limbs of which were growing out too low. I was advised by 

 the late and lamented Mr. Phinney, to plant it to corn, which 

 would incline the ends of these limbs up, and it had the de- 

 sired effect. 



I used no manure on this corn crop in 1849, because I was 

 frequently advised by horticulturists that I was growing my 

 young apple trees too fast, by keeping the ground in good tilth 

 enough for carrots for so many years in succession. This doc- 

 trine I do not believe, and therefore shall continue the carrot 

 crop until my orchard comes fully into bearing, for I am con- 

 vinced, from repeated experiments, that young apple trees do 

 better with the deep culture we give carrots, than with any 

 other crop that can be produced with them. Grass will not 

 answer, at any rate ; corn for several years in succession, will 

 cause the trees to grow too forest like, and they will not stand 

 the winter so well as with the root crop. I have thus far di- 

 gressed from my starting point, not that I feel able to give di- 

 rections how a young orchard should be cultivated, but rather 

 to show why I planted this orchard in corn, in 1849, when I 

 had for years advocated the practice of raising carrots on the 

 same land, first, because the land is, or ought to be, left in fine 

 tilth after the first crop, and secondly, because it is, or ought to 

 be, left free from weed seed, and the crop is managed with half 

 the cost that a field is, which was to weeds and corn the year 

 previous, which is quite too common with our farmers. It 

 would really seem as though they intended to grow two crops, 

 that of weeds first, secondly corn, on the same land, the same 

 season; two such crops, growing together, are too frequently to 

 be found; and after such crops as these, or wild turnip and bar- 

 ley, I would not advise any one to think of introducing the 

 carrot crop. 



I shall be pardoned here in stating again my entire convic- 

 tion that the carrot crop has been altogether the most profitable 

 crop that has been produced on my farm. For the last ten 

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