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25th of May ; but if you get them in by the 10th of June, it is 

 early enough, provided the weather is not very hot and dry 

 about that time. I have noticed that we are apt to have a 

 very hot spell about the 10th of June, and if it is very hot and 

 dry at that time, the little carrots are so delicate that the heat 

 of the sun will burn them up and kill them. Therefore, I do 

 not recommend waiting until so late as that. The 25th of 

 May is a very good time, or within a few days of it. They 

 should be carefully weeded and kept clean. About the time 

 of the second weeding, or perhaps the third, if the land is very 

 weedy, the carrot-tops get so large that they cover the ground 

 pretty well, and then the weeds will not grow. Carrots grow 

 rapidly. Late in the fall, as late as October, they will make 

 the largest part of their growth. The latter part of August, 

 these carrots that I show you had made very small growth. 

 They had come up and grown a little when the hot weather 

 and drought came, but they had no hold upon the ground, and 

 it hardly seemed as if one of them would live. • But as soon 

 as we had rain, along in the early part of August, they began 

 to start, and then we had a few rains, and those carrots made 

 all their growth after the 10th or middle of August, and most 

 of it in October. 



Question. How much does it cost to grow and take care 

 of an acre of carrots, after they are planted, and pull them, 

 and put them into the cellar? 



Mr. Ware. I cannot tell exactly, but I will tell you what 

 it costs to harvest them. Some farmers recommend sowing 

 carrots twenty-two inches apart, but I think that is a waste of 

 land. They will grow just as well in rows fifteen inches 

 apart as twenty-two inches or two feet. Carrots are so 

 constituted, that if there is a bunch growing together in one 

 place, they will crowd themselves out each way. I have seen 

 carrots so crowded that they would be square instead of 

 round. It is not well to have them so thick as that, but 

 where everything is favorable, if there is a bunch side by side, 

 they will crowd themselves out, and make room for each 

 other. Each one says to his neighbor, "Move a little," and 

 they elbow each other round and get room, and grow to good 

 size, even if they are pretty thick in bunches. 



In regard to harvesting, I will say that my experience and 



