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ever raised. I do not ask what flavor they will give to the 

 butter, as I do not make butter, like Mr. Hyde ; I eat it, and 

 let other people make it. I have not the slightest doubt that 

 Mr. Hyde is right. With all due respect to Prof. Arnold, 

 I think that when you take from the milk its various fatty 

 matters, including the volatile oils, you will get with them 

 a certain flavor of the food which the animal consumes ; I 

 have no doubt that it will also appear in the cheese ; but in 

 milk made for the market, and carried to market in a proper 

 way, I think there is no doubt whatever that the flavor of 

 turnips can be entirely and thoroughly concealed, so that the 

 most delicate palate will not discover it. I have no doubt 

 about it, and I would not, therefore, be without the Swedish 

 turnip. It is the cheapest root to raise. It may be planted 

 when you are not planting anything else, and upon land where 

 neither the carrot nor the mangold-wurzel will grow at all ; 

 and it is easily kept from the time you put it into the barn 

 until the grass comes on in the spring for the cows to feed upon. 

 With regard to the mangold-wurzel, my experience has 

 taught me that perhaps a little too high value is set upon it 

 in this country, for the want of an intimate acquaintance 

 with it. It is not a hard root to keep, because, as Mr. Hop- 

 kins has said, if you top it properly, place it in heaps in the 

 field, and allow it to be four or five clays, until it has 

 sweated, — you can cover it with leaves to keep the frost off 

 (and that, by the way, is the very best use to which you can 

 put mangold-wurzel leaves), — it will keep about as well as 

 any leaf you can find. But it is a hard root to raise. It 

 requires the best land you can find. I have no desire to 

 criticise any of Mr. Arnold's statements, because what he has 

 said is so near the truth that I do not desire to differ from 

 him, but I doubt whether a sandy loam will raise a large crop 

 of mangolds. A good, strong, rich clay loam will raise 

 mangold-wurzels which will Aveigh, as my friend Colonel 

 Wilder said to-day, a hundred and eighteen pounds, and be 

 as big, as he said, as a man ought to be. But it requires a 

 tremendously strong soil to raise a good crop ; there is no use 

 in denying it. It requires the most powerful nitrogenous 

 manures and strong soil. It is not, therefore, a root which I 

 would universally recommend to the farmer. It is very well 



