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To Save Seed for Private Use. Select a few of 

 the finest roots and hang same with plant entire to a 

 rafter, in a loft, and when seeds are wanted, they may 

 be rubbed out between the hands. 



Market. Carrot seed follows beet in order of con- 

 sumption. The bulk of seed used in this country is 

 imported from France and Germany; European grow- 

 ers having created a high standard for the quality of 

 their carrot seed, due to painstaking methods. 



In some of the New England States carrot seed is 

 grown equal to the best European seed. There is also 

 a considerable production of carrot seed in Central 

 California, but for some reason or other, most of it so 

 far, has not proved to be as satisfactory as New England 

 or European seed. This is properly considered to be 

 due to faultiness in method, and not owing to climatic 

 conditions in that State affecting the nature of the car- 

 rot, as is by some thought to be the cause. 



In a favorable season, a yield of seed is from 500 to 

 600 pounds per acre; prices paid to growers range from 

 sixteen to twenty cents per pound. 



CAULIFLOWER. 



This vegetable is successfully grown in our country, 

 more especially in the sections bordering on the coast, 

 both on the Atlantic and the Pacific. In the former 

 section, however, there has been some difficulty hereto- 

 fore in raising seed, owing to rot affecting the seed stalk 

 at a certain stage in its growth, and the plant sometimes 

 being attacked by an insect which injures the fertilizing 

 part of the seed flower; these difficulties have not been 

 met with in seed production on the Northern Pacific 

 Coast. 



Cauliflower does well in either a heavy loam or a 



