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about four inches apart in the rows, at the same time 

 removing any weeds that may have made their ap- 

 pearance since the last weeding. With an ordinary 

 season, and the horse-tools kept actively going dur- 

 ing the early part of it, the total expense for hand- 

 labor, in weeding and thinning an acre of Carrots, 

 will not exceed twenty-five dollars. The total cost 

 of producing an acre of Carrots should not exceed 

 sixty-five dollars. 



An acre, under good cultivation, will yield from 

 five to seven hundred bushels of Carrots, worth usu- 

 ally fifty cents per bushel. For the last five years I 

 have sold all our crop for horse-feed at seventy-five 

 cents per bushel, and never have any difficulty in 

 finding purchasers, at this price by the quantity. 

 The Carrot will, without doubt, become more popu- 

 lar from year to year with those who keep horses 

 the greater part of the year on grain, especially for 

 hard-worked draft-horses. This I know to be the 

 case, from my experience in raising Carrots for mar- 

 ket. Livery-stable keepers and express companies, 

 who, ten or twelve years ago, would only order fif- 

 teen or twenty bushels of Carrots at a time, now buy 

 them by the one hundred bushels during the Win- 

 ter. 



Haevesting Caeeots. — In the latitude of Nev/ 

 York, Carrots wanted for Winter use should be dug 

 and pitted early in November. Two men will ac- 

 complish more work in gathering, topping, and stor- 

 ing Turnips, Carrots, or Beets, while the weather 

 is mild, than four will do when cold weather has 

 set in. Topping Turnips or Carrots in an open field. 



