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We raised' turnips with the same methods as a second crop 

 after a cro'p of irye had been taken off, June 20. The turnips, 

 although they were a second crop, yielded 920 bushels from 

 about 154 square rods, at a cost of nine and one-half cents per 

 bushel. Half O'f these were sold at 50 cents per bushel. 



While I have a good corn silage and usually fairly good hay, 

 I experimented with feeding mangels to my cows ; giv- 

 ing 30' pounds of silage and 30 pounds of mangels to 40 pounds 

 of silage, she would drop six tO' ten pounds of milk. Dropping 

 the silage back to 30 pound's and adding the mangels from 50 to 

 60 pounds per day, a cow not too fair advanced in her lactation 

 period would gain four to seven pounds a day, and never failed 

 to make from four or five to eight or tern In another case, 

 dropping the mangels she dropped about eight pounds per day ; 

 let her run a week and then added the mangels to her ration,,^ and 

 she went back from her former yield. It certainly pays to use 

 the right methods in the raising of root crops. 



