Possible Clues:

• Poor carrot not right, a misshapen ___
• Something pulled by farmers
• Source supply from Swede
• Swedes possibly have whip applied to bottom
• Turnips or yams, e.g
• Carrots, perhaps from tack room, occasionally bad on the outside, getting returned
• Tuber, beet, etc
• Ferret cut turnips, perhaps?
• Northbound Catholic against feeding needy Swedes, say
• Beets or turnips