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theminadry sandof theyellowkind 

 from pits. Or, if they are put in- 

 to casks, covering them with fresh 

 turfs may be sufficient. 



It has been maintained by some 

 agriculturists that the tops of 

 carrots might be cut off, as soon as 

 the lower leaves begin to wither, 

 without injury to the root. But 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 Journal,Vol. III. No. 3,p. i81— 2, 

 gives the details of certain experi- 

 ments made by the Hon. Josiah 

 Quincy, in which a certain number 

 of beds of carrots were cut^ and 

 the same number of similar beds 

 were left m/icu/, and the advantage 

 was in favour of the latter, about 

 as 8 to 5. From the result of 

 these experiments Mr. Quincy 

 concludes " that the carrot forms 

 no exception to the usual analogy 

 of nature in the growth of vegeta- 

 bles," which depends nearly as 

 much upon the leaves as the root. 



The best way to keep carrots 

 through the winter, for family use, 

 is to bury them in moist sand. Or 

 they may be kept in the same man- 

 ner with beets. See Beets. 



Mr. Cooper, Editor of the sec- 

 ond American edition of Dr. Wil- 

 lich's Domestic Encyclopaedia, says 

 that horses often prefer carrots to 

 oats, and that " they are decidedly 

 the best food for broken-winded 

 horses, and as 1 believe for asth- 

 matic men.'' 



Mr. Quincy gives the following 

 statement of the mode of cultiva- 

 ting carrots, made use of by Mr. 

 Samuel Wyllys Pomeroy, Esq. and 

 which he prefers to all others. 



" Plough as deep in the fall or 

 spring as the state of the land will 



permit. Cross plough in the spring 

 and harrow level. Put on fifteen, 

 twenty or twenty-five buck loads 

 of the most rotten compost to the 

 acre, as the heart of the land may 

 be. Spread and harrow it fine. — 

 Then with a horse plough strike it 

 into two-bout ridges, as near to- 

 gether as four back furrows will 

 make them, and if the two first 

 back furrows are narrow the other 

 two being deep the ridge will be 

 nearly to a point, and should be 

 eighteen or twenty inches from the 

 bottom of the furrow if it be well 

 cleared out. To do which make 

 another bout in the furrow, if ne- 

 cessary. Then with the head of 

 a rake strike off the crown of the 

 ridge, till it is three or four inches 

 wide, and with it, or a hoe, open a 

 drill in the usual manner. Sow 

 the seed pretty thick, cover and 

 press down a little with a hoe or 

 shovel. When the weeds appear, 

 run a small plough through the fur- 

 rows. Hand weed the crop, and 

 hoe the weeds from the sides of 

 the ridge. The orange carrot is 

 best." 



"In harvesting,a plough with one 

 yoke of oxen should be run near 

 the side of the range of carrots, and 

 as deep as possible. This loosens 

 the dirt and clears one side of the 

 carrots almost entirely from the 

 earth. The labourers then with 

 great facility take them by their 

 tops out of the beds, and throw 

 them into carts, with only an occa- 

 sional use of the hoe to plants 

 which the plough has not loosened. 



" I have no question that con- 

 ducted in this mode a carrot crop 

 may be made more productive,and 



