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much less expensive than the po- 

 tatoe crop usually is. In sowing I 

 use a small hand drill, which lays 

 the seed with great regularity, a 

 circumstance very important both 

 to facilitate weeding and harvest- 

 ing ; since if the carrots stand 

 straggling and not in a line, the 

 plough, when harvesting, leaves 

 the more to be loosened by the hoe 

 or the fork. Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural Repository, Vol. IV. p. 

 24. 



A mode of cultivating carrots 

 differing slightly from the above, is 

 described by Mr. Quincy, in the 

 same work. Vol. IV. p. 212. 



For other modes of cultivating 

 this root, see Mass. Agr. Rep. Vol. 

 V. p. 20, 255. 347. 



Mr. Ebenezer Thrasher, of Sa- 

 lem, Mass. in 1 820, received a pre- 

 mium from the Massachusetts Ag- 

 ricultural Society, for the best crop 

 of carrots, weighing exclusive of 

 the tops, twenty-one tons, four 

 hundred and an half hundred,equal 

 to eight hundred and forty-nine 

 bushels of fifty-six pounds each, 

 raised on one acre of land. 



The same year Ezekiel Hersy 

 Derby, Esq. of Salem, Mass. rais- 

 ed on three quarters of an acre of 

 ground seven hundred and twenty 

 bushels of carrots, exclusive of 

 their tops, which were estimated 

 by competent judges, to weigh five 

 tons. 



CART, a wheel carriage, of es- 

 sential importance to the farmer,to 

 carry his manures, remove stuff for 

 fences, get in his crops, Sic. Horse 

 carts are sometimes used ; but ox 

 carts generally. Of the latter some 

 are short, some long. The short 

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cart is eight feet long, four feet 

 wide, and two feet high. The long 

 cart is used for carting hay, straw, 

 and other bulky matters ; there- 

 fore it is made from ten to twelve 

 feet, or more, in length, four feet 

 in breadth ; and instead of sides, it 

 has only long, sharp pointed stakes. 

 In some parts of the country they 

 lengthen out a short cart, with 

 what are called ladders, when they 

 cart hay. But this is not a good 

 practice. The load lies higher than 

 in a long cart, and is more liable to 

 be overset. 



The greatest excellencies of a 

 cart, are lightness, strength, and 

 durableness. Therefore, it is very 

 proper to construct carts of ash 

 timber. But as white oak is not 

 so apt to decay, the principal parts 

 are commonly made of that. A 

 cart should be kept under shelter 

 when it is not in use. It will last 

 the longer. 



The axle and wheels, should be 

 of the toughest of oak. Wheels to 

 be used on a farm only, need not 

 be shod with iron. A wooden rim, 

 well made, will last several years, 

 and is easily renewed, and it will 

 do less injury to the grass grounds 

 in passing over them. The softer 

 the soil is, the wider the rim of a 

 wheel should be. Some have the 

 rims a foot wide, to cart upo!i 

 marshes. 



A great improvement has re- 

 cently been introduced in hay 

 carts, which consists of a floor, 

 longer than the old cart bodies, 

 with perpendicular posts, or slats 

 connected together at the top by 

 a light frame, and so high as to 

 contain as much hay as the cattle 



