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food, especially in extreme cold weather, there has been dis- 

 appointment. A cow will eat over a hundred bushels of 

 white turnips in a month, and suffer from such a watery diet, 

 while a half bushel per day added to a moderate allowance of 

 hay largely improves the health and tlirift of the animal. 



To recapitulate the fundamental conditions for successful 

 root culture : we must have good seed, a fertile, well prepar- 

 ed soil, free from the seeds of noxious weeds, seasonable cul- 

 ture and thinning, that the young plants be not choked or 

 drkwn up weak from weeds or crowding, neat and timely 

 harvesting and storing, followed by careful feeding. These 

 conditions being secured, root culture gives both satisfaction 

 and profit- * 



