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ring the winter months and up to June, along with 

 hay, iinci without the addition of grain. Such does 

 he consider their economy in horse-feeding, that he 

 states, as demonstrated by his experience, that with 

 the assistance of lucerne for soiling in summer, a 

 workhorse may be kept the entire year round upon 

 the produce of only one acre of land. Mr. Burrows 

 feeds seventy pounds a day to a horse, cut or whole, 

 and mixed with chopped hay ; reducing the quantity 

 somewhat in the short clays of winter, and increas- 

 ing it a little in the spring months. Other growers 

 feed only forty or fifty pounds a day. An acre of 

 carrots, yielding 600 bushels, fed fifty-six pounds a 

 day, would therefore be equivalent to 300 bushels 

 of oats, fed half a bushel a day, to a working horse. 

 To save seed, select the best roots, and keep them 

 in sand in the cellar till spring ; plant them out ear- 

 ly, and the seed will be ripe in August. Preserve it 

 on the seed-stalks till wanted. 



IV. THE PARSNIP 



Is generally believed to be more nutritive than 

 any of the roots we have treated of, and the pro- 

 duct to be greater than that of the carrot or potato, 

 with the advantage over them both that the parsnip 

 is not injured by frosts. Yet its culture as a field- 

 crop has hitherto been very limited. 



The. parsnip may be grown on stifler land than 

 the other roots we have named, provided it has a 

 rich, deep tilth. It requires the same treatment as 

 the carrot, though we would prefer intervals of 

 eighteen inches between the rows, as in good soil 

 the tops grow large. The Jersey variety is prefer- 

 red, on account of small growth of top. Sow early, 

 at the rate of four or five pounds of seed to the acre, 

 and keep the crop free from weeds. 



V. THE TURNIP. 



The turnip culture, it has been remarked, effected 



