Boot Crops. On free working land,
for the use of stock, carrots, sugar beets
and rutabagas may be cultivated with
more profit on the same quantity of
land than any ottier crop. An acre in
carrots, wisely managed, will be as
likely to yield five hundred bushels as
an acre in potatoes to produce one hun
dred bushels, while carrots, Dusnei ror
bushel, are worth more ror stock tnan
potatoes. It is true an acre of carrots
will cost more for cultivation than an
acre of potatoes : but the seed of pota
toes cost many times more than that
of carrots. If the ground is prepared
in the fall by manuring and plowing,
and then thrown up in ridges two feet
apart in the spring and left laying until
the weeds have germinated, then with
a hoe and steel rake subdue the weeds
before planting, there will be but little
more trouble from this source. The
seed must be of last year's growth. I'ut
it in a bag and bury it in the ground a
few inches deep so that It will germi
nate before planting. When this oc
curs, roll it in plaster or dry soil and
drill it in. Put some radish seed among
it which grows much quicker than car
rots, and marks the rows so that weed
ing may commence before you can
scarcely see the carrot plants.
