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Cultivation of Carrots and Cahbayes. 
raises the roots, and the attendant draws them by the top and 
lays them in regular rows. The cost of this varies considerably. 
A moderate crop, not running deep, in an open soil, can be raised 
at lbs. per acre ; while a large crop, having long roots in a deep 
tenacious soil, will cost 30s. to raise carefully. When the men 
have got considerably in advance, women follow to top the roots. 
This requires careful supervision, or they will make a proper 
mess of it, and have roots and tops scattered in all directions, 
with dirt intermixed, involving much waste. When one row 
has been pulled, two rows on either side should be placed on the 
site of that row, in order to leave room for the carts without 
crushing root or top. The roots should be laid together, the 
tops lying right and left of the roots. The cutters will thus drop 
the tops in one heap and the roots on another ; leaving in line 
alternate heaps of roots and tops, which can be carted away 
separately. Tlie tops — very nutritious food and relished by all 
animals — are thus kept free from dirt. A shilling per ton of 
roots is a proximate cost of raising the roots, topping, and placing 
them as described. 
Cabbage. — Assuming 4 acres of ground to be set apart for this 
crop, I recommend planting 3 acres with cabbage, and 1 acre 
with savoys, which do better than cabbage late in the winter. 
The seedsmen reckon 1 lb. of seed to produce plants for an 
acre. W e sow the large drumhead variety ; and taking care to 
procure the best of seed, we find practically, that with proper 
care in sowing and after management, 1 lb. produces plants suffi- 
cient for 3 acres of ground. We sow \ lb. of the large savoy 
seed. Prepare about 20 perches of ground, in July, sheltered 
from the north and east, and, while moist, sow the cabbage-seed 
in drills 12 inches apart thinly., the last week in the month, or 
not later than the first week in August. When the plants are 
above ground, keep them clean. By the middle of October draw 
the plants, and reset them across the same ground, laid in shallow 
.trenches, 3 or 4 inches from each other in the row, the trenches 
9 inches apart. This plan forms strong short-stemmed plants, 
with good fibrous roots, which grow away as soon as planted out 
the next season ; whereas, if left in the seedbed, they get drawn 
up with long stems and less perfect roots, and are weeks recovering 
their removal in the spring. Ridge up the land as for mangolds 
or sAvedes, but let the ridges be 3 feet apart ; and about the 
middle of April plant out half the cabljage plot, setting the plants 
3 feet apart in the rows. The rest of the ground may be planted 
about one month later. 
The savov-secd may be sown in INIarch, and the plants set out 
in the field the end of May or early in June. 
