ITEMS ABOUT TURNIPS AND OTHER ROOT CROPS. 



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3d. Average Produce of Nutritive Mailer per Acre. — In the gross produce above given, 

 there are contained, according to the first Table, the following average pioportious of uutri- 

 tive matter of various kinds: 



Average Produce of Nutritive Matter of different kinds from an Acre of the usually 



cultivated Crops. 



Wheat 

 Barley 

 Oats... 



Rye. 



Indian CJom. 

 Buckwheat . 

 Beans 



Peas 



Potatoes. 



Tamips. 



Carrots 



Mangel-wurzel 

 Meadow liay . . . 

 Clover hay. .... 



Pea straw 



Wheat straw... 



Oat straw 



Barley straw. 

 Rye straw. . . 



The most unceitain column in this Table is that which represents the quantity of oil or 

 fat contained in the several kinds of produce. The importance of the whole Table to the 

 practical man will appear more clearly when we come to treat of the feeding of stock. 



iV. B. We have just noted, as we go along, a communication from "A Stran- 

 ger" to the Marlboro' Gazette, in which, giving an account of a visit to Mr. 

 Charles Hill, of Prince George's County, Maryland, he says: 



•' But that which interested me most, and which I have deemed worth communicating 

 to the public through the columns of your able paper, is the cheap method Mr. H. has 

 adopted this wirier of feeding his cows. Seeing and tasting is believing, and both tests I 

 applied to his fine butter, which was very nice and agreeable to the taste, while its color 

 was lich and beautiful. This butter is made from common cows — not fresh cows, either, 

 fed on com fodder and corn shucks, with a liberal supply of the while turnip boiled well. 

 No meal or bran is used — nothing but a little Siilt to 9ea.son the turnip wash, as he terms it. 

 From six indifferent cows he is enabled to supply an uncommonly large family of children 

 with plenty of fine milk, an abundance of rich milk and cream for his table, and makes 

 fi-om fifteen to twenty pounds of this good butter per week. This fact is worth a thousand 

 arguments. It establishes the great value of white turnip for milch cows. Either prejudice 

 or ignorance has so often asserted that they were of no value, that our farmers have believed 

 without making a fair tiial, and have abandoned their culture e.\cept for table use." 



Laudable as is this advance step, in Maryland management, we must say it is 

 r>ot common to get butter of rich and beautiful color and flavor in winter season 

 from white turnips. Why does not Mr. Hill sprinkle into the " wash " a quart 

 of Indian meal a day for each cow ? It can't be because he can't afiord it ; but 

 OD the score of sheer economy, let him try it for a month and see if it does not 

 tell projilably, both on the quantity and quality of their butter. Still, the exam- 

 ple goes far enough to be of much value for our purpose, as showing what can 

 be done, with ease and with very remunerating results. 



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