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AMERICAN KITCHEN GARDENER. 
grow large and rank, when they are chiefly designed as food for cattle, though 
small-sized ones are preferred for the table.” 
Mr. Quincy gives the following statement of the mode of cultivating car¬ 
rots, made use of by Samuel Wyllys Pomeroy, and which he prefers to all 
others:— 
“Plow as deep in the fall or spring as the state of the land will 
permit. Cross-plow in the spring, and harrow level. Put on fifteen, twen¬ 
ty, or tw T enty-five buck-loads of the most rotten compost to the acre, as the 
heart of the land may be. Spread and harrow it fine. Then, w r ith a horse- 
plow, strike it into two-bout ridges, as near together as fear back furrow r s 
will make them, and if the two first back furrows are narrow, the other two 
being deep, the ridge will be nearly to a point, and should be eighteen or 
twenty inches from the bottom of the furrow, if it be well cleared out. To 
do which, make another bout in the furrow, if necessary. Then, with the 
head of the rake, strike off the erowm of the ridge, till it is three or four 
inches wide, and with it, or a hoe, open a drill in the usual manner. Sow 
the seed pretty thick, cover and press dowm a little with a hoe or shovel. 
When the w’eeds appear, run a small plow through the furrows. Hand- 
weed the crop, and hoe the weeds from the sides of the ridge. The orange 
carrot is best.” 
“ In harvesting, a plow with one yoke of oxen should be run near the side 
of the range of carrots, and as deep as possible. This loosens the dirt, and 
clears one side of the carrots almost entirely from the earth. The laborers 
then, with great facility, take them by their tops out of the beds, and throw 
them into carts, with only an Occasional use of the hoe to plants which the 
plow has not loosened. 
“ I have no question that, conducted in this mode, a carrot crop may be 
made more productive, and much less expensive, than the potato crop usu¬ 
ally is. In sowing, I use a small hand-drill, which lays the seed with great 
regularity—a circumstance very important both to facilitate weeding r.nd 
harvesting; since, if the carrots stand straggling, and not in a line, the 
plow, when harvesting, leaves the more to be loosened by the hoe or the 
fork .”—Massachusetts Agricultural Repository , vol. iv, p. 24. 
A mode of cultivating carrots, differing slightly from the above, is tie- 
scribed by Mr. Quincy, in the same work, vol. iv, p. 212. 
For other modes of cultivating this root, see Mass. Agr. Rep. vol. v, pp. 
20, 255, 347. 
Use .—‘‘Horses are remarkably fond of carrots, and it is even said, that 
when oats and carrots are given together, the horses leave the oats and eat 
the carrots. The ordinary allowance is about forty to fifty pounds a day to 
each horse. Carrots, when mixed with chaff, that is, cut straw’, and a little 
hay, without corn, keep horses in excellent condition for perfo* ming all kinds 
of ordinary labor. 
