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bushel, and at six hundred bushels, less than seven cents 

 per bushel, for a crop, the profits and advantages of 

 which need not be enlarged upon. 



PRESERVATION OF CARROTS. 



The carrot does not keep well, except in cool 

 weather, and even in winter more care is requisite than 

 with either the ruta baga or beet. It is, therefore, well 

 to so adjust the consumption of the crop, that it be used 

 up in season. The narrow trench method of storing 

 beets for winter use, is emphatically the one for this 

 root, above all others; do not trust them in a cellar, 

 even, though it be cool, nor in mounds piled two or 

 three feet high, as was, and is still, practiced. 



The methodical farmer will not be alarmed at the 

 injunction of caution; he knows it is better not to 

 attempt anything which cannot be done well, and, hav- 

 ing once commenced a job, the only economic course is 

 to see it effectually finished. 



KOHL RABI, OR TURNIP-ROOTED CABBAGE. 



This plant is a variation of the cabbage family, 

 fixed in character by long years of selection. The stem 

 above ground grows into globular, or olive-shaped form, 

 and possesses features common to both cabbage and tur- 

 nips. It is used both for table use and stock feeding, 

 and in parts of England, where turnips can no longer 

 be produced, it has widely taken their place, yielding 

 from twenty-five to thirty-five tons to the acre. Only a 

 few localities are suitable to its growth, the requisites 

 being a moist atmosphere and soil. In this country 

 success can only be assured on the seacoast or on damp 

 lowlands. 



The seed, two pounds to the acre, should be sown 

 five to six weeks earlier than Swedes or ruta bagas. The 

 land should be furrowed out at two and one-half feet, 

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