ROOT-CROPS FOR STOCK-FEEDING. 



For three seasons the Cornell Experiment Station has conducted a 

 series of investigations on the desirability and methods of growing 

 various kinds of roots for stock-feeding, and to determine the varieties 

 best adapted to this purpose. This bulletin deals with mangels, sugar- 



FiG. 1 6. — Long Red mangel. A variety producing a large root and a heavy yield. 



Easy to harvest, with jew rootlets; it is very succulent. 

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beets, turnips, hybrid turnips, rutabagas, kohlrabi, carrots and parsnips. 

 It is intended to contain such information as may be necessary to guide 

 those who wish to raise any of these crops under New York State con- 

 ditions. The growing of a number of different types and varieties of 

 roots has contributed the information. A similar bulletin on cabbages 



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