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brought up moisture to the surface and was in that waj' a benefit 

 to the carrot. The land where you eow carrot ought to be sub- 

 soiled deep — Pjr its roots run down deep. 



Jackson of Lake Cham-plain wanted to raise carrots on an exten- 

 sive scale and asked my advice as to the best method, and I 

 recommended the sowing oats with them, as the oats came off soon 

 enough for the carrots to perfect themselves. The last time that 

 I saw him, he informed me that he had followed my advice and 

 had obtained a large crop of carrots. . For this root you must 

 manure highly. 



I keep my carrots through winter by piling them foot to foot 

 interlaced and put them in dry places. I am now taking mine 

 out perfectly sound, piled in that way, they keep almost as well 

 as the parsnip. We must not use putrescent new manure for these 

 roots — for it makes carrots have what are termed fingers and toes. 

 If you put on such manures one year before you sow carrots on 

 the land, with this care, with deep ploughing, and deep sub&oil- 

 ing and clean weeding we got a beautiful shaped and first-rate 

 carrot, with new putrescent manures we have much inferior car- 

 rots. Long orange carrots have given nine hundred bushels on 

 an acre. The long Altringham carrot gives eight hundred bush- 

 els an acre. The white Belgian gives eleven hundred bushels on 

 an acre, this carrot is only equal to the long orange. The pars- 

 nip is cultivated much the same way as the carrot — it should be 

 planted early, freeziag instead of injuring it, does it good. It is 

 a superior food for hogs but not for cattle. I get fifteen hundred 

 bushels otf an acre. 



Dr. Antisell doubts the doctrine of the MaisonEustique, as to 

 the repeated crops of carrots being profitably raised annually for 

 several years on the same spot. The quantity of phosphoric acid, 

 lime and potash taken away by eight hundred bushels of carrots 

 ia one season, from an acre is too much for that. Each succeed- 

 ing crop will demand an equal supply from the soil, and that 

 cannot be advanced by the land unless you supply it. The pars- 

 nip does not require so large a supply. The carrot takes off' in 

 one season some three hundred and thirty pounds of the indis- 



