l04 CAEEOTS. 



both earth and Carrots along the line of the row. 

 This operation leaves every root so that it can be 

 pulled readily by hand, having to use no more 

 strength than would be required in pulling Strap- 

 leaved Eed-top Turnips. 



Plough on one side of the piece, running the 

 " lifter " alongside of the right-hand row of Carrots, 

 and returning on the left. This will bring the two 

 cuts of the sub-soil between two rows, leaving the 

 outside of these rows for the horses to walk on and 

 have firm footing. With a pair of steady work- 

 horses, a sub-soil plough, three men, and a boy to 

 drive the horses, we have frequently loosened and 

 pulled an acre of Carrots in a day. Occasionally, 

 if the ground is stony, the plough will miss loosen- 

 ing a Carrot ; but this will not cause a detention of 

 any account to those pulling the roots. When pulled, 

 the Carrots are thrown into small heaps ; or, bet- 

 ter still, three or four rows are thrown into a con- 

 tinuous row, with the roots all in one direction. 

 This arrangement will facilitate the topping, which 

 is the slowest part of the work of gathering the 

 crop. 



By the use of this plough, we have taken out 

 and topped an acre of Carrots, that yielded five 

 hundred bushels, at a total cost of nine dollars and 

 fifty cents, or rather less than two cents a bushel. 

 To dig and top the same number of bushels in the 

 old-fashioned way, would cost, at the lowest estimate, 

 three times as much. Six cents a biishel is usually 

 estimated as the cost of digging and topping a bushel 

 of Carrots. I mention all the particulars in this 



