134 CARROTS. f MARCH. 



TARES ON A STALE FURROW. 



Sowing on a stale furrow is much superior to a 

 fresh ploughing. If the land was ploughed before 

 the Christmas frosts, and the weather in February 

 has been favourable to the vegetation of weeds, 

 some may have appeared, but the scarifiers or 

 scuffles will utterly destroy them, and working only 

 in the dry pulverized surface, will prepare for the 

 seed much better than ploughing. Let it be remem- 

 bered^ that the necessity of a succession of tare 

 crops (which may be continued through all the 

 spring) ' depends on the farmer's being not duly 

 provided with lucerne, chicory, clover, or other 

 crops applicable to soiling. If he has such crops, 

 tares are proper tionably unnecessary ; but if he has 

 not, then he should be very careful to have a due 

 succession of tares. These are also to be applied 

 to penning sheep, and are for that use of much 

 importance. 



CARROTS. 



This is the season for sowing carrots. The land 

 should be ploughed in the common manner, but 

 fiat, and 5lb. of seed to an acre sown broad- 

 cast, and harrowed in. If the weather is unusually 

 wet, a farmer may be prevented from getting on 

 the land; but, if possible, he should delay it no 

 longer than the 25th. The proper soil should not 

 be mistaken through common notions, nor confined 

 to a compass much within the reality. It is a 

 general idea, that nothing but sands will do for 

 carrots ; but this is a mistake, The best sail for 



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