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should not be directly manured. The previous crop should 

 be highly manured but the carrot itself grown without 

 manure. There should be plenty of lime in the soil where 

 carrot is grown. 



532. The proper time for sowing carrot seed in the 

 plains is between the i5th September to i5th October, and 

 if famine or scarcity is feared, sowing is done still earlier 

 in the N.-W. Provinces. It is best to sow in drills and ridge 

 the drills after the plants have appeared and then to thin out 

 the plants. 200 mnds. of well rotten dung should be used 

 before sowing, or better still before sowing the previous Aus 

 paddy crop. 8 to 12 ounces per acre is the quantity of seed 

 which should be used. The yield comes to 2*00 to 500 mnds. 

 per acre, if good loose soil near village^site is chosen and if the 

 soil is deeply cultivated, well pulverised, weeded 2 or 3 times 

 and irrigated 5 or 6 times. The seed should be mixed up with 

 wood-ashes at the time of sowing, and, unless the soil is 

 quite moist at the time, water should be poured in the drills 

 immediately after sowing. 



533. The following analysis of carrots give an idea of the 

 high feeding value of this vegetable : . 



White Medtn. 

 carrots. 



Water 



Soluble 

 noids. 

 Insoluble 



albumi- 



Sugar and starch ... 



Crude fibre 

 Woody fibre 



Soluble mineral 



matters. 

 Insoluble mineral 



matters. 



TOTAL N. 



'35 



-17 

 8-98 



1*09 

 28 



i ob 

 175 



Red Medtn. 

 carrots. 



48 



30 

 7-98 



I '80 

 '99 



32 



IOO 



230 



} 



English 

 carrots. 

 87-30 



66 

 8-10 



} < 



74 



IOO 

 200 



