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tie will do better when fed upon different kinds of food, than 

 when confined to one sort. Every farmer ought to raise 

 some roots, to feed his stock, when he is using his coarse 

 fodder. 



From the first view of the statements published in the trans- 

 actions of the society, it would seem that the carrot crop was 

 much more profitable than corn. But it may not, under all 

 circumstances, be best for the farmer to apply so much of his 

 manure to one acre, for carrots, and to neglect the rest of his 

 farm. The question is not, how we can raise the most from 

 one acre of land ? but, how we can, with the least expense, 

 keep the most stock upon the farm ? If we take the ten cords 

 of barn manure, that was applied to one acre of carrots, and 

 compost it well with meadow mud and soil, this will manure 

 four acres of corn, which will probably yield fifty bushels to the 

 acre. This, for the farmer who has grass land that needs 

 ploughing, would be better than to put it all on one acre, for 

 carrots. 



I have found that the same land, manured alike, will yield 

 about one-third as many bushels of corn, on the ear, as of car- 

 rots ; or, in other words, we can get a peck of cob meal as 

 cheap as a bushel of carrots. The question then arises, which 

 is worth the most — the peck of meal, or a bushel of carrots, — 

 for stock ? My opinion is, that if we cut the hay, the meal will 

 be worth the most ; but if we feed on dry hay, not chopped, 

 the carrots. 



On Ploughing Land for Corn. The best time for breaking 

 up a stiff, hard soil, is late in the autumn, that it may be more 

 exposed to the action of the frost. For a light soil, it is better 

 to defer the ploughing till about the time for planting. It is 

 often more convenient to plough early in the spring, as soon as 

 the frost is out, when the land can be ploughed much easier 

 than at any other season ; but it injures most land to plough it 

 then ; it hardens like mortar as it dries, and it will require more 

 labor to keep it properly cultivated. 



On warm, loamy land, where the corn is often injured by the 

 cut worm, it is well to plough the land in August, then cross 

 plough in the spring ; this will destroy the worms. The yel- 



