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such a purpose. It left the soil -where it grew in the best possible 

 condition for subsequent crops. 



Mr. Dill said he knew farmers who would not use turnips for 

 their stock if thej could be had for nothing. As for himself he 

 liked them, but cattle fed with them were more likely to suffer from 

 cold, unless in warm barns, than if fed on hay alone. 



Mr. Drummond said a neighbor raised fifteen hundred bushels of 

 turnips, gave them to the cattle and they were in no better, if so 

 good, condition as those without roots. I feed hogs as well as neat 

 stock on turnips raw. I feed one-half of the winter on turnips and 

 the other half on mangold. My neighbor gave too much of them 

 to his cattle which was the cause of difference between his and mine 

 — his suffering loss, and mine gaining. 



Mr. Tucker said his neighbors fed their hogs on turnips and they 

 did well. I feed my horses with carrots and oats, and consider they 

 do better than on twice the quantity of oats alone. My usual feed 

 is six quarts of oats and the same amount of carrots, and I never 

 found horses do better. 



Mr. Palmer said he thought very highly of carrots for horses and 

 to fatten hogs. They were better cooked than raw. Carrots and 

 pumpkins boiled together will fatten hogs cheaper than anything 

 else. He had raised at the rate of upwards of fifteen hundred bush- 

 els of carrots to the acre. Turnips are colder than carrots. If you 

 fill one half of a bin with turnips and the other half with carrots, 

 the turnips will freeze solid, while the carrots will not freeze at all. 

 Nothing will fatten a horse so quick as boiled carrots. 



Mr. Martin had raised at the rate of three hundred dollars worth 

 of carrots to the acre The year following sowed to carrots again, 

 but the seed failed to germinate. Ploughed up and sowed turnips 

 broadcast the ninth of July, and had an immense crop. But he 

 should have preferred to have his carrots succeed, because he thought 

 them better for animals than turnips. 



He had fed carrots to horses and other animals, and was entirely 

 satisfied with the result. He considered a bushel of carrots equal 

 in value to half a bushel of oats. But animals fed on roots should 

 be kept in warm stables, or the results will not be so satisfactory. 



Mr. Lancaster thought very highly of roots and had been partic- 

 ularly successful with turnips, manuring about the same as for pota- 



