Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-05-15
HOW TO RAISE CARROTS.


and sold like the beet, and to a mod
crate extent proves profitable; it is
also very valuable as food for stock,
for which purpose it is largely grown
in different parts of the country, par
ticularly in the North, where the diff.
ferent domestic animals require more
shelter, and consequently more food
to sustain them. The carrot is re.
mcrkably tender when young, and
should have close attention to insure
a rcmunerative crop. To prevent the
necessity of resolving, more than the
specified quantity should be sown, as
the surplus can easily be thinned out.
To plant the carrot, select a rather
light piece of ground if not rich,
make It moderately SO with stable ma
uure, plough and harrow thoroughly,
then draw shallow burrows about eigh-
teen inches, to two feet apart. If it
is not desiI able TO cultivate with
horsepower, about fifteen inches is
the proper distance. The manure
should be spread lightly along in the
burrows. A furrow should be thrown
on the manure from each side, making
ridge, and the top lovelled off with
rake. Then make slight drill in
the middle Of the ridge with the back
of q wooden rake or stick.
After having selected the Kind Of
seed most desirable, sow it in the drill
covering lightly with a rake. The
proper way to plant the carrot is to
plough down an old sod field, as by
thus doing you are not so liable to be
pcstered with weeds, as if they had
been planted in a cultivated fold
' They are sown for an early crop as
soon as the ground is fit to work, and
for la,er crop they can be sown any
time until the first or middle of June.
When the plants have made their
appearance, they should be cultivated
between the rows, and weeded by
hand thoroughly, and when they
have acquired a height Of two or three
inches they will require thinning,
and at the same time should be weed
cd. They should be thinned to from
three to five inches apart if designed
to sell in the premature state, bunch
ed like beets or radishes but when
large full grown roots are the objects
aimed at, they should be left from
six TO nine inches apart When fully
matured-which is found by the
leaves turning-and desired to be
kept over winter, they are taken from
the ground, all the small, fibrous roots
and the top taken off with a sharp
knife (some prefer the neck left on,
which is necessary in those intended
for seed } and packed tightly together
first a layer of dry sand, and lay
er of carrots, with the ends all one
way; then layer of sand, and an
other layer of carrots, with the tops
the opposite direction; thus continue
putting them in layers, covering with
dry sand four or five inches, to ex.
clude the light and air. If put out
in the field, they arc made in heap
with a coat of straw over them, being
covered with earth to the depth of a
foot to exclude frost. In this man.
ner they will keep in fine condition
until March.
There are several different kinds
cf carrots, but the following three
varieties are the most desirable fol
general cultivation: Long Orange
Carrot, the variety most generally
cultivated for market and stock pur
poses, very productive, rather coarse
flesh. 1t sometimes on very rich sol
attains the length of two feet.
Early French Short Horn, brigh
orange, red color, much shorter
than the Long Orange, being Of I
half-long shape, tender and delicate
and much esteemed for the table a
any season of the year.
White Belgium, or large white, tn,
most productive as well us the larges
kind, very coarse, much used as
food for stock, but Not regarded as 81
nutritious as the other varieties. TIL
Long Surry, the Red and Yellow Al
tringhams, and Orange Belgian ar
Of no advantage to the trucker" o
tarmer-thc first named varieties be
ing generally known and cultiyatc'
extensively. The Early French i
the kind that is sold in punches, be
ing earlier and shorter than the othe
varieties, and these qualification
making it the most profitable to
limited extent.