CARROTS, MANGOLDS AND SUGAR BEETS. 7 



in the shape of the Long Orange, when grown on a deep 

 mellow loam, and on a heavy soil with a compact sub-soil, is 

 so remarkable that it would be almost impossible to make an 

 inexperienced persqn believe each lot was from the same 

 seed, — those grown on the heavy soil, resting on a com- 

 pact sub-soil, oftentimes so closely resembling the- Inter- 

 mediate varieties as not to be distinguished from them. 

 Though the course is not on the whole to be advised, yet 

 Carrots can be raised on freshly turned sod. Such land will 

 be very free from weeds, and by making good use of the 

 wheel harrow, and applying manure in a very fine state, 

 should the season be a moist one, fair crOps may be raised. 

 Reclaimed meadows in a good state of cultivation, which 

 are well-drained to the depth of thirty inches, will oftentimes 

 grow crops, large in bulk, but the individual rodts are often- 

 times inclined to "sprangle," and unless such meadows 

 have been well drained, and liberally covered with sand or 

 gravelly loam, they are apt to be spongy and inferior. When 

 grown on land inclining to clay, they are apt to be small and 

 woody in structure ; still, such land, if made friable by good 

 underdraining and the application of sand may be made 

 fair carrot ground. 



THE MANURE AND ITS APPLICATION. 



All root crops delight in most liberal manuring and the 

 highest of cultivation. Carrots are no exception to this rule. 

 With every crop, other conditions being equal, it is tJie la <f 

 half of the manure gives the profits; and the more costly the 

 cultivation required the more important it is that this golden 

 fact be born^ in mind. Though chemical analysis shows dif- 

 ference in the composition of all roots, and that there is 

 therefore an office for special manures, yet their general 

 composition is so nearly alike, and animal manures, most of 



