. Carrots, mangold wurtzels and sugar beets. Carrots; Sugar beet; Mangel-wurzel. hoes which take each side of the row at once cannot safely be made to go over the ground as fast as those designed for use between the rows, but working close home to the grow- ing crop, they save a large portion of the cost of hard weed- ing. Of seed drills there are a dozen or more in the market, several of which I have used on my f^rms. I prefer Matthew's over all others. Among other advantages it can be relied upon to Matthews seed sower. drop almost any variety of small seed, while it is a good cov- .erer, an
. Carrots, mangold wurtzels and sugar beets. Carrots; Sugar beet; Mangel-wurzel. hoes which take each side of the row at once cannot safely be made to go over the ground as fast as those designed for use between the rows, but working close home to the grow- ing crop, they save a large portion of the cost of hard weed- ing. Of seed drills there are a dozen or more in the market, several of which I have used on my f^rms. I prefer Matthew's over all others. Among other advantages it can be relied upon to Matthews seed sower. drop almost any variety of small seed, while it is a good cov- .erer, and havi-ng a roller attached, it packs the earth over the seed, which, as every farmer knows, tends to keep the moisture in and thus NOYES' WEEDER hastcus their germi- nation. The hand weeder is an excellent little implement to facilitate the laborious work of weeding, especially when the surface is baked and therefore rather hard on the fingers. GATHERING AND STORING THE CROP. One of the greatest outlays attending the raising of Car- rots is in the gathering and topping of the crop. The com- mon process of digging with a fork and throwing into piles to be afterwards topped is laborious and costly. The labor and consequent cost may be greatly lessened by first cutting off the tops by a sharp shovel, spade or common hoe, or a slide hoe which has been weighted by a piece of lead pipe, or some similar heavy article, slid down the handle and fastened where that unites with the hoe. Should a slice be taken off. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gregory, James John Howard, 1827-1910. [from old catalog]. Marblehead, Mass. , N. A. Lindsey & co
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