BOOTS TURNIPS BEETS CAEKOTS. 179 



wheels would hardly track it, and roots not previously 

 dug up must remain fast in the earth for weeks and 

 often for months. Hence, the turnip can never grow 

 so luxuriantly, nor be counted on with such certainty, 

 here as in Great Britain ; nor can animals be fed on 

 it in "Winter, except at the heavy cost of pulling or 

 digging, cutting off the tops and carefully housing in 

 Autumn, and then slicing and feeding out in Winter. 

 It is manifest that turnips thus handled, however 

 economically, cannot compete with hay and corn- 

 fodder in our Eastern and Middle States ; nor with 

 these and the cheaper species of grain in the West, 

 as the daily Winter food of cattle. 



Still, I hold that our stock-growing farmers profit- 

 ably may, and ultimately will, grow some turnips to 

 be fed out to their growing and working animals. 

 A good meal of turnips given twice a week, if not 

 oftener, to these, will agreeably and usefully break 

 the monotony of living exclusively on dry fodder, and 

 will give a relish to their hay or cut stalks and straw, 

 which cannot fail to tell upon their appetite, growth 

 and thrift. Let our cattle-breeders begin with grow- 

 ing an acre or two each of Swedes per annum, so as 

 to give their stock a good feed of them, sliced thin 

 in an effective machine, at least once in each week, 

 and I feel confident that they will continue to grow 

 turnips, and will grow more and more of them 

 throughout future years. 



The Beet seems to me better adapted to our 

 climate, especially south of the fortieth degree of 



