100 CAEEOTS. 



hoe over each one, in the line of the ridges, care- 

 fully removing any hard lumps of clay, stones, &c., 

 to the furrows between. The seed is sown by a 

 machine, using four to five pounds of fresh seed to 

 an acre. Carrot-seed can only be relied upon with 

 certainty for one year. With seed two years old, I 

 would increase the quantity to five or six pounds to 

 the acre. It is an excellent plan to sow sparsely 

 some white Spanish Eadish-seed, or, in fact, any 

 kind of Radish, in the drills at the time of sowing 

 the Carrots. The Radishes will germinate much 

 sooner than the Carrots, showing distinctly, in ten 

 or twelve days, the lines of the rows, and thus en- 

 able the grower to cultivate much earlier than he 

 otherwise could. When the Carrot-tops are three 

 or four inches high, the Radishes may be pulled out, 

 having fulfilled their mission. Market-gardeners turn 

 these Radishes to account by preparing them for 

 market. 



For a Fall crop, the seed should be sown from 

 the 20th of May to the 1st of June. A few days 

 earlier or later than these dates wiU not make much 

 difference, although it is better, in my estimation, to 

 have the seed in the ground on or before the 1st of 

 June. Holbrook's seed-drill is simple in construc- 

 tion — the best that I have tested for sowing garden- 

 seeds. 



CuLTiVATm&. — This, above all, is the most im- 

 portant point in growing Carrots profitably in the 

 field. The moment that the Radishes are fairly 

 above ground, and before the weeds have started, 

 the spaces between the rows should be disturbed by 



