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rots are used for feeding horses, cows, and every species of stock, and 

 generally estimated, per hundred pounds, about half the value of English 

 hay. The present season they sell readily at from nine to twelve dollars 

 per ton — hay selling at twenty-four dollars. Carrots are considered .a 

 good preparative of the ground for other crops, particularly the onion. 

 In some instances, carrots are grown in intermediate rows, between the 

 rows of onions, and then fair crops of both are obtained from the ground 

 at the same time, but we do not believe such a mode of cultivation 

 desirable. 



The Beet, in its several varieties of mangel-wurtzel, sugar-beet, and 

 blood-beet, is much praised, and often recommended as a valuable escu- 

 lent for the support of stock. Mr. Colman, in his European Agricul- 

 ture, vol. II., p. 503, so speaks of it. Occasionally large crops, amount- 

 ing to thirty tons to the acre, have been obtained. Still, for some cause 

 or other, it is not extensively cultivated. Those who have grown them 

 a few years are apt to discontinue the cultivation. That the beet is one 

 of the most nutritive and palatable of vegetables cannot be denied- 

 Accurate experiments, continued for a series of weeks, have demonstra- 

 ted that cattle fed on beets will gain twice as much as when fed on the 

 same quantity of turnips. Beets will not do well, year after year, on the 

 same soil ; and no crop, to my knowledge, is favored by the growth of 

 the beet. It may be considered a great exhauster of the nutritive quali- 

 ties of the soil. It demands deep culture, and liberal manuring. 



The turnip, with many, is the "crop of crops" — the one thing need- 

 ful on the farm. In England, it appears to be an almost indispensable 

 part of their cultivation. Such has been the impression of citizens of 

 'New England, who have visited that country ; such was the impression 

 of the farmer of Marshfield, on his return from it. I remember to have 

 heard him dilate on the turnip-culture of England, with eloquence most 

 persuasive. His practice has corresponded with his professions. No 

 one, who has visited his extensive fields at Marshfield, can have failed to 

 notice his verdant acres of English turnips, growing in neatly arranged 

 TOWS, and yielding a dozen or more tons to the acre, even on that shal- 

 low soil. How much of a dressing from the sea-shore had been applied^ 

 I will not say, I think it must have been liberal. 



The ruta-baga, or Swedish turnip, is the variety that finds most favor 

 in this vicinity. It is often grown in great abundance, with less expense 

 than most other roots. This, like every other variety of turnip, is exposed 



