The Grange advance., 1874-05-27
AGRICULTURAL.
Carrots for Horses.

q uLt!C SucCuleNe, Ju'1S' Sco'co'o "i"I-
ter occasionally, and how much they
thrive on it. No one who has ever tried
to favor :. i,ors: with little dciicucy oi
this kind once would ever give up the
practice.
OF ali these vegetable Substances
there is nothin" which a horse scv".S t..
relish s., much rs the carrot. 1t il the
sign Of IL ynod healthy horse to she'd
his coat early and freely in sprin=. ""A
TO have a rich glossy one to follow soon
in it's place; and this an occasional
winter mess Of carrots seems to favor.
It is rather troublesome 70 grow car
rots Most people who do not know
how to SOW seeds put them IN So deep
tha, many rot, and Of course thr crop
is thin. 70 guard against this loss they
SOW double Of treble the quantity re
quircd, and then, as if for spite, the
seed generally comes up: and Of course
too thick. 1t then has to be hand
wecdcd and hocd, which is IL very
troub!cs>n nc operation. especially ""
land where labor is already scarce
enough.
The seeds arc burr-likc and stick to-
yethcr. Before sowing it should };c
mixed with sand and rubbed Well
through the hands. This will separate
one seed from the other, and enable
them to be distributed finely and even
]y along the rows-as in rows and only
in that way should carrots be sown.
In sowing carrot seed the ground
should be very fine. Amy Jumps should
be we'll crushed with the roller and the
whole surface made very smooth. The
seed should not be put in this finely
pulvcrizcd soil over onc-eighth Of an
inch deep, and after sowing the ground
should be again rolled. If this can be
:: hit " exactly the seed, if known to be
fresh and good, may be so graded by the
drill as not to fall nearer than an inch
together. Every seed will grow. and
then will be quite as thick as they
ought to be- The rows may be about
fifteen sor sixteen inches apart, or as
close as we may think any man or horse
can work with Il cultivator. We have
horse and man which can work rows
very we'll fourteen or fifteen inches
wide; but it is not every horse that
will work in that way.-Forney's Week.
{y Press.
OF the value Of carrots for horse
feed, western farmers need but little in
struction. In planting we generally
had good success. Our plan was to use
a small eight or ten inch corn plow
and throw together two burrows of we'll
prepared ground, then with a steel
garden rake level and smooth the top of
the ridge. After the plants were we'll
set thin them out as desired with a hoe
and the hand. These ridges are easily
kept clean by the cultivator and plow.
On good soil the growth will be enor-
nous.
CLAwsoN WHEAT.-The Ruraz Ncav
Yorker gives the following as the histo.
ry of the new Clawson wheat: MIR. Gar
ret Clawson of Seneca county, N. Y,
in company with his son, was crossing a
wheat stubble on an adjoining farm to
his own, and in picking up different
heads of wheat they each found head
that for length Of head and quality of
grain attracted their attention They
were both white wheats. They sowed
them in corner together. The next
year they picked the wheat, separated
the two varieties and rubbed it out by
hand, and watched the growth very
closely, and found the growth of one Of
the heads sown to be different from any
thing they had ever seen growing, for
stiffness Of straw, length Of head and
whiteness Of berry. Being so plump
and large they concluded to try it again.
They sowed the product Of this one
head Zone pint) and the next harvest
they had 80 pounds. This they sowed
and the next harvest they cut II dozen
of sheaves, which upon threshing yield
ed 13 bushels of cleaned wheat. This
was sown, and the product was 130
dozen sheaves. yielding $50 bushels.
The next year he had 254 bushels Of
clean wheat MIR. Garret B: Clawson
obtained fo,:; bushels Of this wheat in
1870, which h, sawed on barley stubble
which had been planted with corn the
year previous. He sowed the four
bushels on one acre and 13O rods of
ground. He harvested 92} bushels by
measure, weighing 62 pounds to the
h,1shel This wheat took tha first nremi=