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CARROTS, MANGOLDS AND SUGAR BEETS. 



.^oe.) which take each side of the row at once cannot safely 

 be made to go over the ground as fast as those designed for 

 use between the rows, but working close home to the grow- 

 ing crop, they save a large portion of the cost of hard weed 

 fng. Of seed drills 

 there are a dozen or 

 more in the market, 

 several of which I have 

 used on my farms. I 

 prefer Matthew's over 

 all others. Among 

 other advantages it ^^ 

 can be relied upon to Matthews seed sower. 



drop almost any variety of small seed, while it is a good cov- 

 »jrer, and having a roller attached, it packs the earth over 



the seed, which, as 

 every farmer knows, 

 tends to keep the 

 moisture in and thus 

 noyes' weeder hastens their germi- 



nation. The hand weeder is an excellent little implement 

 to facilitate the laborious work of weeding, especially when 

 the surface is baked and therefore rather hard on the fingers. 



GATHERING AND STORING THE CROP. 



One of the greatest outlays attending the raising of Car- 

 rots is in the gathering and topping of the crop. The com- 

 mon process of digging with a fork and throwing into piles tc 

 be afterwards topped is laborious and costh*. The labor and 

 consequent cost may be greatly lessened by first cutting off 

 the tops by a sharp shovel, spade or common hoe, or a slide 

 hoe which has been weighted by a piece of lead pipe, or 

 some similar heavy article, slid down the handle and fastened 

 where that unites with the hoe. Should a slice be taken off 



