WORCESTER SOCIETY. 77 



Cr. 



November, By one half manure back for other crops, $3 75 

 " 15, " 196 bushels of 56 lbs. carrots at 25c., 49 00 



$52 75 



The written statement, in regard to the expense of growing 

 my carrots, I believe to be substantially true ; in regard to my 

 estimate for weeding, to some, I presume, it may seem low ; but 

 I believe, if it had been done by a man at one dollar per day, 

 it would have fallen below, rather than above, my estimate, 

 and the price per bushel, 25 cts , is considerably lower than I 

 should be willing to sell my carrots for. 



In regard to raising carrots, there has not, to my knowledge, 

 been but a little done in our country. There seems to be a uni- 

 versal dread, with a large part of our farmers, of getting down 

 on their hands and knees, and weeding, as our fathers used to, 

 lowery days in hay time. To all such as go back to the time 

 when they sowed by hand a small patch of ground in a very 

 weedy garden, and pulled out the weeds with their fingers on 

 rainy days, when they thought they could do nothing else, to 

 all such people as have dirtied their fingers on rainy days to 

 improve the condition of the roots, if it was for me, I should 

 say that they had done more hurt than good. 



My practice has been to sow my carrots on land where not 

 less than one or two crops of corn had been taken, and where 

 the ground had, while in corn, been ploughed deep and well 

 manured, and kept free from weeds. The seed should not be 

 sown until the ground has been well pulverized. I should pre- 

 fer sowing as soon as May 20, but should prefer June 1st, unless 

 the ground was very light and fine ; by sowing late, we save 

 much labor, for the carrots will be up almost as soon as the 

 weeds, so that they can be worked. My land, at the time I 

 sowed my seed, was in fine condition. The print of my ma- 

 chine was visible for some days, so that we could hoe between 

 the rows, which was done, with a sort of shufiie-hoe, before the 

 carrots were up. This hoe was manufactured from a piece of 

 grain cradle scythe, about 15 inches in length, just long enough 



