' On Summer Wheat, 115 



straw is slender and short, the ears small, but general- 

 ly so well filled, that the chests open and expose the 

 grain before it is ripe. The stem of the straw is al- 

 ways a little bent at the joints, which is not the case in 

 any other wheat. 



There are numerous varieties of spring wheat, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Skurray, and one sometimes answers 

 while another will not. Seed of the genuine sort may 

 be had of Messrs. Cook, Fisher and Co. opposite the 

 Pantheon, Oxford street, London. 



On the Cultivation of Carrots* 



[The providing an abundance of succulent food for sheep, and other 

 farm stock, when they have young, is all essential to their health 

 and prosperity. For this reason, the attention of farmers is called 

 to the cultivation of the carroty of the utility of which root the most 

 abundant testimony is afforded by various British farmers ; and 

 some in the United States, whose experiments have been commu- 

 nicated to the Agricultural Society. With a good stock of carrots 

 and mangel wurtzel, a,farmer need not dread along or severe win- 

 ter, or be apprehc;nsive about the health of his breeding stock. 



The attention of the sheep farmers in Albany and Saratoga coun- 

 ties, New York, is particularly called to the growth of carrots. The 

 nature of much of their soil is particularly adapted for them, and 

 they have hills of leached ashes for manure, of which, (in 1812,) no 

 use was made ! ! 



The body of the following paper is chiefly abridged from Dick- 

 son's Agriculture, London, 1805] 



The orange carrot, the root of which is larger, the 

 colour darker, and the flesh more juicy and saccha- 

 rine, than in the other varieties, is the most proper 

 sort for field culture. Deep friable, loamy, or sandy 



