Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-05-17
THE CARROTS.

The soil best adapted 10 the growth ofthe
carrot is a deep sand loan. The prepara.
lion Of the ground consists in ploughing to
the dep h ola foot, the application ofa rot.
ten manure, to oe we'll incorporated with
the soil-excep; long manure has been ap.
piled TO the previous crop-and complete
pulverizatiou. Ploughing the fall previous
for the cropis recommended.
The kind OF carrot best adapted to field
culture is the long red. The seed should
be Of the preceding years growth. The
mode of culture is best in drills. though in
Suffolk, England, sowing broadcast is pre-.
ferred. We have modern ill.barrows
adapted TO the sowing ofthis seed, though
the sowing it by hand is not tedious pro.
cess-as man may 90 ahead in sowing in
this way as fast as another drives barrow.
The difference consists in making the drill
with the hoe and covering the seed. AS
the seed is of peculiar lightness, it is ap, not
20 vegetate we'll if the surface is light; and
the practice has obtained, with large grow
ers, ofpreparing it before hand, by mixing
five pounds Of seed with bushel Of sand
or fine mould, a week or two before hand
and of moisiening and turning the mass fre.
quently; by this means not only do all the
seeds grow, but the plants come up quickly.
and get the start Of weeds. Two pounds
Of seed is enough for an acre when sown in
drills, though five pounds are often sown on
an acre broadcast. Won Thaer uses pou.
drelte, instead Of mould, in the preparation
ofhis seed. The drills should be eighteen
inches apart, and the plants thinned to six or
eight inches. The seed should be sown
early in or by the middle of May
The after culture Of carrots consists in
keeping them free from wee s, and the sur
face of the soil open and as the rows are
too near to admit of the plough or cul iva.
tor. the hand hoe must be depended on.
The best mode Of harvesting the crop
is that adopted by Col. MISUNDERSTANDING
the earth from the row with the plough, and
then drawing Them with he hand.
The ordinary yield Of the carrots is less
than that of -uta baga or mangold wur2el--
The average may be stated at 400 to 500
bushels the acre, though the product has
exceeded 1000. They are so hardy. tha
in the south of England they ate permitted
to stand out in the winter but with us they
should be gathered and secured like other
roots, In October.
The caro-, is eaten by all sorts Of farm
stock, bu. particularly useful for horses
and mich cows, serving substitute for
grain with lie former, and increasing and
milk when fed 10 the later Mr..
Burrows. one Of the greatest growers Of
this roo, has fed ten cart horses with them,
during the winter months, and up to June,
with hay, and without the addition Of grain.
Such does he consider their economy in
horse feeding, that he states, as demonstra-
ted by his experience, that with the ass's.
tance of lucerne for soiling in summer, a
work.horse may be kept the entire year
round upon the produce Of only one acre
Of land. Mr.. Burrows fe, ds seventy pounds
a day 10 horse, Gu. or whole, and mixed
with chopped hay-reducing the quantity
somewhat in the short days of winter, aud
it a little in The spring months
Other growers feed only forty or fifty pounds
q day. An acre Of carrots yield ne 600
bus ,els. fed fifty.siS pounds u day, would
"a month o. s;S .yeeis earle, in this climate.
Ed. GAzerrE.
tin this climate they may 30 suffered to remain
ir the pro'.aa el -rin!e: En, Ga:ETTr.