CARROTS, MANGOLDS AND SUGAR BEETS. 27 



RAISING CARROTS WITH ONIONS. 



I transfer from my Treatise on Onions, a paragraph rel- 

 ative to growing carrots with onions. 



The plan of raising carrots with onions is considered a 

 great improvement by many who have adopted it, as the yield 

 of carrots is thought to be clear gain, diminishing but little or 

 none the yield of onions. Carrots are planted in two ways ; 

 one by sowing them in drills between every other row of 

 onions, and the other, which is considered an improvement, 

 called the Long Island plan, by planting the onions in hills 

 from seven to eight inches from center to center, dropping a 

 number of seed in each hill, and from the first to the twelfth 

 of June planting the carrot seed, usually by hand, between 

 these hills in two rows, then skipping one, and thus on 

 through the piece. The onions, as they are pulled are thrown 

 into every third row, the carrots being left to mature. By 

 this method from 'two to six hundred bushels of carrots are 

 raised per acre in addition to the usual crop of onions. More 

 manure is required ior the two crops than for the onions 

 alone. 



The machine used for sowing in drills has two boxes at- 

 tached to the axle at equi-distance from the wheels ; there 

 are three or four holes in the axle that communicate with the 

 seed in the boxes, and as these holes pass under the boxes 

 they are filled with seed, and as they turn the seed are drop- 

 ped into the earth. Screws are sunk into the holes, which 

 can be sunk more or less at pleasure, and the quantity of seed 

 which the holes will contain is thus graded. 



The machine should first be tested and so regulated that 

 on a barn floor it will drop from eleven to twelve seed from 

 each hole. When so regulated, on using in the field it will 

 drop but from seven to twelve, owing to the more uneven, mo- 

 tion. 



