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It is a fact well authenticated, that cattle will eat 

 them with greater avidity than the potato, and that 

 they will thrive faster upon them. I have seen calves 

 eat them without refusal. Then the beauty of the 

 matter is the great yield. The experiment being tried 

 upon a quarter of an acre, it was found that the arti- 

 chokes yielded at the rate of upwards of 600 bush- 

 els, whilst the potatoes came out a little more than 

 half. In a very dry season, the experiment was again 

 tried, and the artichoke gave one hundred and fifty 

 bushejfc&while the potatoes produced nothing. Five 

 hundred and seventy bushels vrere produced in the fol- 

 lowing year on an acre. A half acre of the same 

 land, highly manured, produced in turnips less than 

 three hundred bushels. 



From this it will be seen, that the crop of arti- 

 chokes was the most plentiful, as well as most profit- 

 able; and I would recommend the enterprising far- 

 mer to use some of his land in this product, instead 

 of reaping a meagre crop of wheat, corn, or other 

 grains. 



ON GROUND NUTS. 



Among the many articles to which the farmer 

 could turn his attention, there is none which would 

 prove more profitable than the cultivation of ground 



