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since so much additional land has become available 

 to their cultivation that the large profits of the palmy 

 days of corn-growing have gone. A larger proportion 

 of those grown have to be disposed of in other ways 

 than for culinary purposes. With a larger acreage 

 than is actually required for domestic purposes, those 

 which are of poor quality cannot be disposed of so 

 advantageously in the market as on the farm. Care- 

 lessness and ignorance in the cultivation, and the 

 growth of inferior varieties, keep the market glutted 

 with potatoes of poor quality, and profit is only found 

 where other conditions prevail. A few years ago, 

 when wheat was more valuable, rough potatoes were 

 eagerly purchased by bakers, but many of those who 

 used to urge that good bread could not possibly be made 

 without potatoes, find that, now wheat is only worth 1 

 or so per quarter, potatoes can be dispensed with. 

 With few exceptions the bakers were not buyers of 

 good quality, so now that their demand is lost, third- 

 rate potatoes are either sold at a price which does not 

 pay, or they are used as food for stock on the farm. 

 The winter feeding value of all bulky fodder crops, 

 especially those which decay quickly, is very dependent 

 on the supply of turnips. Swedish turnips are some- 

 times worth a pound a ton in dry, cold springs, while 

 in others they are hardly worth carting away from the 

 farm. Generally speaking, however, they have a value 

 of about 10s. per ton. The average quantity of water 

 in a swede is 89 per cent. ; of carbo-hydrates, 7 per 

 cent. ; of albuminoids, 1*4 per cent. ; of fats, '03. The 



