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late spring. The cost of producing an acre of carrots, including seed 

 and all labor, would be around one hundred ten to one hundred 

 twenty dollars, according to the condition of your ground. 



A Member: Our experience in storing carrots has been not to 

 keep them in the cellar, but rather to use a little place in the field on 

 some good dry spot. Make a hole perhaps a foot deep, cover with 

 straw, then throw the dirt back on top, and put manure on as the 

 frost comes. We have kept carrots that way in excellent shape until 

 April. 



Mr. Greffrath: There is no question about the carrots keep- 

 ing, but the trouble is to get them with the temperature about zero. 



Mr. Cook: I kept some carrots last year by trenching them. 

 We put them right into a trench such as we dig for celery on a side 

 hill, sloping to the north, which is dry and well drained. I kept 

 them till spring, when they were washed and sold at one dollar twenty- 

 five cents for a bushel basket. 



Mr. Greffrath: Is there anyone who has had experience with 

 worms in carrots .^^ 



Mr. Hallett: All I found necessary to avoid them was to plant 

 on a different piece of land. 



Question: Have you used lime on this soil? 



Mr. Greffrath : We make a practice of sowing lime about every 

 third year, eighteen hundred pounds per acre. We use marl. We 

 have never used water slaked lime. Would you think the other 

 lime would be better .^^ 



A Member: We thought we had better results using water 

 slaked lime. We get the burned lime and slake with water. 



EARLY POTATOES 



Mr. Greiner: Let us take up early potatoes. 



Mr. Greffrath: We don't get very early potatoes on muck. 

 I would not advocate planting anything but early varieties on muck. 

 The main outlet for muck grown potatoes is for seed purposes. It is 

 true that there are some varieties of potatoes of the early type that 

 you can grow on muck land having perfect drainage. You can grow 

 an excellent quality for table use on well drained muck. I am using 

 nothing but muck land potatoes at home. I prefer them to potatoes 



