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width at the bottom, where two rows of plants should be 

 planted with a water channel in the middle. 



(23) Near large towns vegetable-gardening, (called also 

 market-gardening) i.e., growing of potatoes, brinjals, 

 palval, cabbages, cauliflower, turnips, beet, knol-kohl, carrots, 

 asparagus, artichoke, Jerusalem artichoke, palam sag, dengo 

 sag (in the rainy season), chewing sugarcane and English 

 peas and beans, pays well, Ample provision for manuring 

 and irrigation is necessary. Dairying and goat-farming 

 ought also to prove highly remunerative if carried on within 

 a short distance from towns. Vegetable-gardening and dairy- 

 ing may well be combined, as any vegetables that are not 

 readily sold can be given to cattle. Goat-farming may also 

 go well with vegetable farming if proper arrangements for 

 hurdling the goats in can be made. 



CHAPTER LX. 



CARROT (DAUCUS CAROTA) AND RADISH (RAPHANUS SATIVUS). 



f^ARR OT. The English root-crop which has a special 

 value as a nourishing famine-food and fodder is the 

 carrot. Up-country carrot or gdjrd is not such a nourishing 

 and palatable food as European carrot, and of all the carrots 

 experimented with in this country, the Red Mediterranian 

 variety grown at the Cawnpore Experimental Farm seems to 

 be the best. The Yellow Mediterranian carrot is a heavier 

 yielder but it is more suited as a cattle food. The yield of the 

 White Mediterranian carrot is almost equal to or even higher 

 than that of country carrot, but the roots are hard, coarse and 

 insipid. Without manure the country variety gives a much 

 larger yield than any of the European varieties. Carrots 



