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tended for mowing, that the grass has winter-killed, or in some way 

 is destroyed : these pieces I plow up, taking care to turn them over 

 as well as I can, sometimes before and sometimes after mowing, but 

 always in time to sow and reseed with grass by the 20th July. I roll 

 my land, and harrow it well the same way I plowed it, and put on 

 about 15 cords of manure to the acre, (barn-yard manure) ; I harrow 

 until all is well mixed ; I then sow my turnips, say one half pint of 

 seed to the acre ; it is my wish not to have the seed nearer than nine 

 inches of each other ; in doing so, I give my grass seed a chance to 

 take root. At the time of sowing my turnips, I sow a compost pre- 

 pared as follows : ashes fifteen bushels, bone dust five bushels, plas- 

 ter one bushel, per acre ; in this way I always raise good turnips, 

 and I think at a trifling expense, as all that was done was with a view 

 to reseed the land, &c. As to the other root crops, the same rule as 

 to manuring will apply to them, but the ground must be made mellow 

 to any depth you please, the deeper the better. I use the same com^ 

 post in the drills for all my roots, taking care at all times to apply 

 it m a moist condition. I raised the last season the white Silesiaa 

 carrot at the rate of 960 bushels to the acre ; but I prefer the orange 

 cafrot ; as to fe'eding roots, I feed them to my fat cattle, cows, horses, 

 and hogs, in the raw state ; nor do I think it advisable to cook them 

 for any animal except the fatting hogs. I then boil them and mix 

 provender, and feed when soured. Quantity per day : I feed to my 

 fatting cattle, say three-fourths of a peck, to be fed at two different 

 times, say morning and evening ; my milch cows half bushel per 

 day ; my store hogs, of beets three lbs. per hog, and one gill of corn 

 per feed. By feeding in this way, I have always found my stock to 

 improve, and I have never had them to scour or be injured in any 

 way from their feed on roots. I continue feeding on roots to my fat 

 cattle until about the 1st of January ; I then commence feeding on 

 meal, made with corn and cob, and continue the roots at discretion in 

 smaller quantities." 



