Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-05-30
j'dluc Of carrots - Hoe to Raise
Them.

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American farmers do not sufficiently
appreciate root crops. They prefer food
for animals that will grow without an
nual planting and tilling. Much of the
excellence attained by English farmers
| in raising and fattening cattlcand sheep,
is refcrable to their root crops. The
carrot has a greater value than the
amount of nutriment it contains. 1t
I has small portion of poetic acid, which
assists in the digestion of other food.
The acid has the power of gelatinizing
the contents of the stomach. When /
carrots are fed to horses with oats, the
oats are all digcstcd, even to the husks.
Horses will sustain more labor with car
rots substituted for one third the oats,
as the carrots promote the health as well
as digestion. They are said also to ar
rest the heavcs in the early stages.
Nearly siX-Sevenths of the carrot is wa
ter but when the weight raised upon
an acre is considered, counting eighteen
tons of two thousand pounds each, as
the product of an acre, which is NOT an
extra yield we have in food elements:
Flesh formers lbs. $40
Ucnt and fat producers, 1888
Amt ofdigcstiblc food per acre. 4, 42S
, And as hay contains only about forty
nine per cent. of nutriment, this acre of
carrots would be equal to rand half
tons of good hay, beside being more east
4 ~. "a, lp,t I,nt
;, carrots are in as soluble and digestible
, condition as grass-in fact us grass laid
, up for winter use, we see the import
ancc of this crop. The tops are also
: valuable food-are devoured very greed
q, lily by cows, and coming in when other
green food is done, assist in keeping up
y the flow of milk later i'll the season.
Some have estimated the tops as a re-
+ Enumeration for the principal part of the
labor in raising them. Carrots are adj
4 mirable food for mich cows in winter,
;, producing as much butter in January
= as the best grass in June.
EXPERIMENTS.
Turning to our book of experiments,
i we find that four years old cow pro-
|. duced, in January, from fourteen days
q milk, after calving, twenty pounds of
: butter. Another COW coming in about
> the first of February, produced in seven
days, nine pounds of butter; another i'll
70 April made ten pounds in eight days.
10 A record was kept until June l.
~ The product of butter was unquestion-
= ably doubled by the carrots This
j. would give 154 pounds of butter for 1OC
bushels of enthusiastically a very lib
-, eral remuneration for raising them.
+ This butter produced in winter had
If nearly as fine color and flavor as II
,,l - loAto" %
" color the butter with carrots inside the
H. cow than with an infusion of juice
ri mixed in working.
le Light soils are generally preferred. A
al heavy soil should be freed from water
1e and deeply worked. If stable manure
in is used it should be on a previous crop
SEED.
IL The Early Horn is suited for garden
d. culture and has a superior flavor for table
use The Long orange is generally
rt preferred for a field crop.
no PLA NTING.
,st This may be done from the last O
~ May to the middle of June, depending
he upon the climate and season. The row
ey should be about twenty inches apart
he The seed should be deposited with
an drill at q uniform depth of one-half t.
or three-fourths of an inch Some mix i
he with radish seed. The radsh coming
up in two or three days marks the row
IN and also shades the young carrots. Tn
k radishes may be pulled out leaving tn
no ground loose or left to decay in tn
he ground.
re CULTIVATION.
re Use the best implements.
,ro HARVESTING.
$50 When the carrots are ready to pull
H. run subsoil pillow close to the row a
,or deep as it can be drawn. This viii
m loosen the carrots so that they can b
in lifted out by hand. In cutting the top
nm the lower crown should be left to pre-
serve them from decay.-Condense
&c from the uR3fy0I Ne1O YORKER