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The Florists^ Review 



April 10, 1918. 



CARROT IN CALIFORNIA. 



[Concluded from page 64.] 



apart in the rows, except in the case 

 of small varieties, such as French Forc- 

 i? g. Three feet each way seems a lot 

 to g^ve a carrot, but it is, if anything, 

 too little. 



"The planting is generally all fin- 

 ished by the end of January, and the 

 carrots immediately commence to make 

 roots. Cultivating is kept up continu- 

 ously until growth gets so strong as to 

 forbid any further horse traffic. Sev- 

 eral hoeings are given during the sea- 

 son, but by June the growth forbids 

 even a man getting about without doing 

 serious damage. 



"It is a fine sight to see a large 

 patch of twenty or thirty acres of car- 

 rot in bloom. The growth reaches a 

 height often of six feet. By August 

 the seed is ready for cutting. Carrot 

 seed has always been a difficult one to 

 harvest, but the Japanese have made 

 a good tool for the job. A large blade 

 of iron is securely fastened to a trestle; 

 on the top of the blade is fastened a 

 divided lever; the lever is fastened to 

 one end of the blade. A man pulls up 

 one or two roots and pushes the heads 

 over the blade while the lever is held 

 up. The man operating the lever brings 

 it down so the heads are chopped off 

 into a sheet or into a basket. Imagine 

 the blade of a pocket knife fastened 

 to a trestle and the handle the lever, 

 and a fair idea of the principle of the 

 tool can be grasped- 



' ' After being cut the heads are taken 

 to the drying sheets. The sheets are 

 40x40 and the heads are piled about 

 three feet thick. The heads are turned 

 daily, sometimes twice daily, and in 

 three days during fine weather are 

 ready for threshing. The condition is 

 carefully watched so that the 'sticks' 

 do not get too dry. The threshing is 

 done by two horses and a wooden roller. 

 After they have trotted over the heads 

 for half a day, the rough sticks, etc., 

 are thrown off and the seed loosened 

 up a bit. The seed is then thoroughly 

 dried for another day, being turned 

 over several times. The horses and 

 roller work a few more hours to * beard ' 

 the seed. There is usually about 1,500 

 pounds to each sheet. After the * beard- 

 ing' operation the seed is sifted through 

 large sieves and then roughly milled. 

 It is then taken to the cleaning ware- 

 house and carefully milled. Everyone 

 knows how difficult it is to clean carrot 

 seed; in fact, it is an art. No matter 

 how good the mill is, the man in charge 

 must use his brains to get a good sam- 

 ple. With the modern arrangement of 

 the mills, including the dust room, the 

 disagreeable dust has been confined, so 

 that the cleaning of carrot seed is a 

 much better job for the mill attendant 

 than it used to be. 



"The same varieties of carrots popu- 

 lar in Europe are grown in California, 

 but perhaps not so many. Danver's 

 Half Long is the most popular, with Ox- 

 heart a close second. One is surprised 

 to find Scarlet Horn only about a poor 

 third, but French Forcing is popular. 

 Other varieties grown in quantity are 

 Red St. Valery, Chantenay, Long 

 Orange, J^antes, Intermediate, Short 

 White and White Belgian. When a row 

 of Danver's or Chantenay carrots are 

 dug from the peat land and laid out 

 for selecting, the sight would make 

 many of the leading exhibitors of veg- 

 etables in England green with envy." 



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