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a tool drawn by a horse or mnle. This should be 

 repeated within a week, and often enough afterward 

 to keep down effectually the grass and weeds. 



For many years I have used for this purpose two 

 implements which I consider more simple and more 

 effective than any others that have come under my 

 notice — the Carrot- weeder, which does the work with 

 light draft, and very thoroughly ; and Mapes' one- 

 horse lifting sub-soil plough. In case the ground 

 between the rows becomes hard from heavy rains, a 

 mule is attached to the " lifter," which is run once 

 in each space between the rows, and three or four 

 inches deep, lifting and loosening the soil without 

 disturbing the roots. These are the only tools I use 

 in the culture of Carrots, and I have no hesitation in 

 stating that they are the best I have seen, simple in 

 construction, and easily managed. With a few days' 

 practice and a steady animal, a man or boy will run 

 the Carrot- weeder as close to the rows of Carrots, 

 without injury, as the common hand-hoe, and, of 

 course, doing it thirty times as fast. 



When this plan is carried out, the only hand- 

 labor necessary is to remove what weeds may come 

 up directly in the rows, and thin the Carrots at a 

 later date. 



About four weeks from the time of sowing the 

 seed, the weeds and some of the Radishes should be 

 pulled out by hand. Tiie season, and other circum- 

 stances, will often vary this ; it is not, however, wise 

 to put off too long the first hand-weeding. Two or 

 three weeks later, by the middle of July, the Carrots 

 should be carefully thinned by hand, leaving them 



