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and then scald one half of it so as to kill the germinating power, and 

 then after thoi'oiiglily re-mixing it, sow as usnal. It is cheaper to 

 waste half of the seed than to get down on your knees and pull it out 

 after it gets up. Turnips may be nettrly all water, but there is some- 

 thing in them tliat is really beneficial to young stock, dry cows, colts 

 and horses. 1 would not feed turnips to cows giving milk, for we can 

 get something so much belter for them at so slight advance in cost, 

 that the balance goes over the other way. 



CARROTS. 



We raise carrots lo color butter with and to feed to milch cows. 

 For butter coloring raise the "Early Scarlet Horn." For stock raise 

 the "'Long Orange." Don't let your carrots stand too thick in the 

 row. Five or six inches is near enough. I remember going into a 

 neighbor's field of carrots last summer, and found them standing only 

 two or three inches apart in the row, and in the fall he was ready 

 with the remark that "it was a poor year for carrots." If we can 

 raise can'ots and sell them to the livery stable keepers for $15 per ton, 

 I think it would be a good crop, but I w^ould not raise them to feed to 

 mv cows, or to the horses we work on our farms. It is an expensive 

 crop to raise and they are actually no better for cows than beets, and 

 not so good as turnips for working horses. 



Carrot seed is one of the weakest germinating of all seeds, slow to 

 sprout and hard to see or find after it gets above the surface of the 

 ground. Fur this reason, a larger quantity of seed should be sown 

 than is necessary for the crop, so that it may be strong enough to 

 raise itself through the earth, and stand erect above it, and I have 

 practiced for two years, sowing a little radish seed with the carrot 

 seed, and then you don't have any difficulty in finding the rows, and 

 it assists greatly in weeding, to be able to do this easily and readily. 



RADISHES. 



The earliest thing we get from our gardens is the radish. After sev- 

 eral experiments on a small scale, I feel able to recommend the fol- 

 lowing method to my neighbors of growing the radish. 



Pi-epare the bed as for onions, making the soil as smooth and fine 

 as possible with your rake and fork. Then sow the radish seed broad- 

 cast,, and rake and roll it in. After they get up two inches high at- 

 tend to the thinning if necessary, and they will need no further care 

 till they are ready to pull, about six or seven weeks from the time of 



