No. 42. 



Imported Stocle—Rools—Jintidpation. 



373 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Importcil Stock. 



Breed is. Feed. 

 Sir,— Intending to spend an evening with 

 my neighbor Simmons, I tooif with me the 



|Suice by a farmer of Delaware county. He 

 jsaid he was surprised at the increased quan- 

 jtity and richness of milk which his cows 

 :yielded, whilst he fed them on the sugar- 

 ibeet, and they increased so much in fatness, 

 that, when some of them which he intended 



Cabinet, and read from t the accounts of sales^ V w \ 'T"" ., .T^ '^'^^'^'^ '^^ intended 

 of improved cattle. On a km.Tim what Si' 1^'^T^^^^ 

 tliought of the prices which th'^eybmucrht ^^^ n ^ition to be slaugi^itered. 

 replied, » Fudge ! I think with the ™fmani '' ^7 ^^^PPmess to hold a friendly inter 



in^England, I forget his na^me t/T^^ ""ZT Xt^^^l^lTTf^F''' '^ 

 goes in at the mouth, and that the blind man' " ^ - vicinity, and all of them whc 



was right, when, on hearing some one ex- 

 claim, there is a beautiful horse ! replied, theii 

 I am sure he is very fat ! Now there is my 

 Bull, which people are coming far and near 

 to see, and to talk over his fine pomts, and 

 whjch gained the premium at the agricultu- 

 ral meeting— did any of you think him such 

 a beauty when I bought hini at a year old for 

 $12, tiiin as a split rail, and being nothing 



^ , — w.^.,. who 



have used the sugar-beet, as food for their 

 cattle, agree in recommending it as a most 

 valuable acquisition to then- stock of winter 

 provender. Several have informed me that 

 |their neighbors were not sparing in their 

 jridicule at this innovation on the old method 

 jof farming ; but prejudice is giving way to the 

 ^conviction, that root culture will become the 

 jbasis of good husbandry, and that any evil ef- 

 fects, such as over-feeding with an aperient 



but ;.om/s from head to tail! see wW breed iC..;n ' over-leeding with an aperient 

 herfow exhibits! all which, I am sure has'' f"!' '' ii° ^\ ^'^^^^^^^ to ignorance 

 gone m at the mouth." Now, my^ood friend V^- u"^ V^'" '''f^' ^l""^^""' "" ^'^^ ^'■"^^^ 

 said r, you do not do either yoLS or the' i ^^^^f P^«^'dence has so abundantly 

 anin^al justice: I wasat vo i eZ rwheJ voult ''1 '' ^h^f f ^^ Pf^akeof them vora- 

 bought ii.m, and overheard a con^Son'r^^' ^'^?,^^^ ^ and other fatal 



which passed between you and vo "rSfH!' f'"''"' ^ P^^^^^t, they are the means 



wlnspe?, .while runmiJg oJ/ZllfZlC^ZZ^,^^^^^^^^^ ^« ^^ 



points, v.'hich you now attect to ridicule, fin- 

 ishmg with the remark, " with care and good 

 keep he'll make a splendid animal." Now 

 tell me, would you have depended upon keep 

 alone, if he had been saddle-backed, crupper- 

 rumpcJ, cat-ham'd, knock-kneed, slab-sided, 

 bufialo-necked, pig-eyed,— "Stop," cried he, 

 " I am convinced, and if you will divide the 



pense with the use of medicines. 

 j I hope your correspondent will not be dis- 

 couraged by the mistakes of his neighbors 

 jfrom giving the sugar-beet an experiment. 

 jHe is a root-grower, and must be a ^ood far- 

 ^mer ; and while we yield all that lie claims 

 for the mangle-wurtzel and ruta baga, we 

 jwill defend the sugar-beet, not only at the 

 point of the pen, but from the deep entrench- 



much as it militated against my love' of high 

 pedigree. So we agreed that blood and bone 

 require a good coat of flesh to bring them to 

 the standard of Hogarth's line of beauty; and 

 more than this, that, like charity, it will'hide 

 a multitude of imperfections. 



An Old Farmer. 



honors with me, I will acknowledae that oD^ I k r"',, u . .^"^^^P entrench- 

 half breed and one A«///°c?.S i^l ^ei^'ff which will be formed of this valuable 

 needr To this I was-'cipelledVSent ^e ^^^^ 



for to speak candidly, I also had been con^ ifnl^^lms- ^^ 



vinced of the truth of his quaint aphorism, 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Anticipation. 



" Bring up a child in the way he should go." 



I Some years since an agricultural laborer 

 arrived m Philadelphia from England, and 

 after making inquiry for employment, he was 

 hired for a year by a highly respectable and 

 (intelligent farmer of the county. It was in 

 jthe autumn that he entered his employer's 

 ^service, where his movements were such as 

 jto indicate that he had been properly drilled 

 jin his profession. During the winter there 

 [was a prodigious snow storm, that put a stop 

 jto all operations excepting feeding the stock : 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Roots. 



Sir :— a correspondent of the Germantown 

 Telegraph, whose article you published in 

 the June number of the Cabinet, objects to the 



s^t^";c^x:s.^?.Sj:tE^to^.iSt:rt^^^ 



in^ property of the beet is one of ^ ^^t^^^r,^Z^:\:t::^ 



with other food, it has a tendency to keep he would go to work and put them in order 

 animals healthy, and its nutritious qualities for hay-making and ha?ve?t now when thev 

 are undisputed. One of the many facts which.could do nothing e se The krme^^^ 

 prove tins, was related to me a few days aghast, almost spichless, at the dea of pre- 



