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THE GEOTESEE FARMER. 



THE EABLY SHORT-HORN CAEROT. 



"We give au engraymg of tliis carrot, "wMcli ia 

 esteemed the best of all the tribe for table use. It 

 is of a very fine flavor, and commands a ready sale 

 in market. Americans do not sufBciently appre- 

 ciate the carrot as an esculent; mainly because 

 the kinds commonly grown are too often inferior 

 varieties. The Short-horn carrot grows rapidly 

 and matures early. The young carrots when but 

 small, are highly esteemed for flavoring soups, 

 gravies, etc. This carrot can be profitably grown 

 ;as a field crop for marketing, near cities and large 

 towas. The most suitable soil for carrots is a light, 

 rich, -sandy loam. Manure, if used, should be well 

 .rotted-; otherwise the roots become fangy. 



It ia of great advantage to germinate the seed 

 before -sowing, by mixing it with fine sand. The 

 mixture is laid in a heap, where it will not freeze, 

 and oc( asioE.ally watered, for a period of two or 

 •three weeks, and then sown in drills on the ground 

 prepared for its reception. By adopting this plan, 

 the «eed may be sown later than otherwise, and 

 -the young plants then come up quickly and are 

 .enabled, in a measure, to get the start of the weeds. 



Sowing Plastee. — The addition of a little salt 

 and unleached ashes to plaster for clover, has the 

 trflfect of giving the clover an early start and attracts 

 find fixes the ammonia from the atmosphere. 



SPIRIT OF THE AGRICULTURAL PRESS. 



Raising Calves. — John Johnston, in the Cown-: 

 try Gentleman, thus gives his method of raising' 

 calves: When they are a few days old he com- 

 mences giving them oil-cake meal or barley meal 

 in their milk. This is continued until they are 3-^ 

 or 4 mouths old, when they are turned to 4)astnFe. 

 He also feeds them cut hay or cut grass, from the 

 time he first begins to feed them until they go tO' 

 pasture. He thinks early cut clover hay is better 

 than pasture for calves. The following winter, h€ 

 gives them good clover hay, with a pint of oil- 

 cake meal each per day. The next summer, they 

 have good pasture. As soon as the pasture fails*, 

 they are taken to the yards and fed hay or corn- 

 stalks, with the addition of two quarts of oil-cake 

 meal per day to each calf. In this way his calve* 

 realize him from $47 to ^QO each, when 20 to 2i 

 months old ; whereas, had they been raised on thi 

 common shiftless plan adopted by many farmers 

 they would not have been worth half that sum. 



The Benefit of Keeping the Surface Soi: 

 Mellow. — The Country Gentleman claims that i. 

 the surface soil around a young fruit tree is kep 

 mellow, and daily stirred through the growim 

 season to the depth of only one or two inches, th, 

 grow1;h of the tree will be more than double, an 

 sometimes quadruple what it would have been hat 

 the soil remained undisturbed, or been kept 

 grass. This stirred soil acts as a slight mulch, an 

 prevents the evaperation of the moisture in th 

 soil during the hot days of summer and the to 

 great radiation of heat at night. On the sair 

 principle, it advocates the application of a surfac 

 coat of manure on winter wheat in autumn, ac 

 the mulching of all dwarf pear trees at the approac 

 of winter. 



EvEET Faemee Should Hate his Woeksho: 

 So says the Wisconsin Farmer. And every farm) 

 should be mechanic enough to mend all the sma 

 breakages that occur on the farm, instead of losir 

 time and patience in sending to the village to ha^ 

 the work done. Besides this, when a wet dj 

 comes, the boys will interest themselves in learnir 

 to become practical mechanics, instead of mopir 

 round the house. 



Seed Cobn. — Peeston Eaele, in the Hun 

 Register, says he has been in the habit, for sever 

 years, of soaking his seed corn in a solution ( 

 copperas and saltpetre, and thinks it has been tl 

 means of preventing the worms from attacking tl 

 young plants at their first start in life. Have ar 

 of otir readers tried this? 



