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and a peck of oats, are equal to a half bushel of oats. Sixty 

 bushels of oats and nine hundred bushels of carrots are large 

 crops." 



" Say, to raise carrots, you plough your land once oft- 

 ener than for oats, at a high allowance for men and 

 team, ^2 60 



Say it takes twelve days' labor to hoe the crop three 

 times, and four days' labor to harvest the crop, sixteen 

 days at 75 cents, . • • • . 12 00 



Say additional manure for carrots, which however leaves 



the land richer, . • • • . 10 50 



$25 00 

 Say then, you raise only 500 bushels of car- 

 rots per acre, at 35 cents, . . $175 00 

 Deduct extra cost of cultivation, . 25 00 150 00 

 Say you raise 40 bushels of oats per acre, 

 place the seed of the two as equal, and 

 that the straw of the oats pays for harvest- 

 ing and threshing, and you have 35 cents 

 per bushel, . . . . 14 00 

 One hundred thirty-six dollars clear gain, if 

 you feed your carrots to your own horses 

 and cows. Then strike off half again, and 

 reduce your carrots to 250 bushels, and 

 still you have $68 against $14." 



Plough, Loom and the Anvil, June, 1851. 

 Carrots for Horses. — " It is admitted by every one who 

 is at all acquainted with the great nutritive qualities of the car- 

 rot, that as a winter food for horses, to use in small quantities 

 daily, — say half a peck to each horse, with their dry food, and 

 especially in the absence of green provender, is of the utmost 

 value. It not only possesses fattening properties equal to oats, 

 taking bushel for bushel, but it secures to the horses, in winter 

 season, fine health, a loose skin, and a glossy coat of hair, which 

 it is impossible to produce except by the use of the carrot. 



'• To those keeping horses, who do not raise their own car- 

 rots, we would hint that now is the time to procure a supply, 



