THE TARMER’s manual. 
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ris, or live ashes, or both, or with a dry loam, and 
strew your seed in the rows so as to have them fall at 
the distance of 3 or 4 inches apart ; this will give 
them room to grow without crowding, so as to obtain 
a good size. If you mix a small quantity of onion- 
seed with your carrot-seed, the onions will come for- 
ward first, and assist in finding the young carrots at 
the first weeding ; they will also serve for early fami- 
ly use without injury to the carrots. The carrot 
must be kept perfectly clean, and free from weeds 
through the season ; 3, 4, or 5 hoeings and weedings 
will be necessary, and in October, they may be dug 
with the spade, or dung-fork : 500 bushels to the acre 
is a good crop, and 1 have^ known 2500 bushels to be 
raised upon an acre, or in that ratio. The carrot is 
worth 2s. when given raw to hogs, cattle, sheep and 
cows, or 2s6 when boiled, or steamed, and mixed with 
bran ; no feed makes richer pork, beef, mutton, or 
butter and cheese, than the carrot. The same cul- 
ture is required for beets and parsnips. 
Mangel Wurtzel, or Scarcity Root. 
This root requires the same culture as the carrot, 
but as it grows much larger, it is necessary to place 
the seeds in the roWs at the distance of about six 
inches, and when the roots have obtained a good size 
in July, and August, you may begin to pluck the un- 
der leaves as feed for your hogs and cows, without 
injury to the roots ; if you begin to pluck upon one 
side of your patch, say one rood, you may have, 
from the time as above, a regular succession of pluck- 
ing through the season ; for by the time you have 
gone over the patch, the roots first plucked, will be 
ready to be plucked again, and so on. This food is 
very nutritious, and may become a profitable saving 
of your corn. The value of the roots you may ex- 
'perience in your winter’s feeding, either for hogs, 
sheep, cattle, or cows, the same as the carrot, or they 
may be kept over until spring, as you choose. This 
