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on a frosty morning, is anything but pleasant ; and 

 it is as expensive to the owner as it is disagreeable 

 to the operator. On some farms it is customary to 

 cart all the roots, as soon as pulled, into the barn. 

 This adds expense and considerable extra labor to 

 the harvesting of the crop — loading in the field and 

 unloading at the barn. The time this requires may 

 all be set down as unnecessary expense. Every 

 hundred bushels of roots pulled and topped in the 

 field, while the weather is pleasant and warm 

 enough to make working out of doors comfortable, 

 is a saving in expense of at least fifty per cent. 

 This we have tested oser and over again, and always 

 with the same result. 



Those who have groAvn Carrots as a field-crop, 

 know how tedious a job it is to dig them in the Fall. 

 It is not only tedious, but if the Carrots have grown 

 full-size, uiiless taken out by careful workmen, there 

 will be half a dozen fork or spade-handles broken in 

 getting out an acre or two of Carrots. 



We o;row on our farm from eight hundred to one 

 thousand bushels of Carrots every year for market, 

 and we have many years since given up the use of 

 the spade and digging-fork in taking out the crop. 

 We do it with much less manual labor and less ex- 

 pense, by applying horse-power instead of man- 

 power. The rows of Carrots are about two feet 

 apart — wide enough for a horse or a mule to walk 

 between. ^Ylien the proper time arri\'es, and other 

 things being in readiness, two horses are hitched to 

 a lifting sub-soil plough, which is nm alongside of 

 each row of Carrots, deep enough to lift and loosen 



