RAISING CARROTS WITH ONIOAS. 49 



tendrils of such as attempt to climb. The one-plant-to-a- 

 hill system will be found to yield as liberal a crop and finer 

 squashes than the old system of three or four to the hill. 



The yield of onion-seed to the barrel of seed-onions varies 

 greatly : indeed, no investments near the seaboard prove 

 more speculative. The maggot sometimes proves very 

 destructive, so much so that the crop will not average half 

 a pound to the barrel ; or the stalks may turn yellow at the 

 bottom, and the crop blight, and prove a failure within a week 

 of the time for it to ripen. 



When the seed is fully dry (and seed that has been sunk 

 should have a long exposure to the air, and frequent stirrings : 

 I have known large lots spoilt from want of care in this), it 

 should be so stored as to be safe from all injury from cats 

 and other animals, who are apt to resort to it, to the utter 

 destruction of its vitality. 



RAISING CARROTS WITH ONIONS. 



THE PLAN of raising carrots with onions is considered a 

 great improvement by many who have adopted it, as the 

 yield of carrots is thought to be a clear gain, diminishing but 

 little or none the yield of onions. Carrots are planted in two 

 ^ays, — one by sowing them in drills between every other 

 row of onions ; and the other, which is considered an im- 

 provement, called the Long-Island plan, by planting the 

 onions in hills from seven to eight inches from centre to 

 centre, dropping a number of seed in each hill, and from the 

 first to the twelfth of June planting the carrot-seed, usually 

 by hand, between these hills in two rows, then skipping one, 

 and thus on through the piece. The onions as they are 

 pulled are thrown into every third row, the carrots being left 

 to mature. By this method, from two hundred to six hun- 



