102 AMERICAN HUSBANDRY. 



Two acres of Swedish turnip* or manmld-wurzel 

 will feed 000 days. 



One acre of potatoes will frfl .... 75 days. 



One acre of Swedish tin:: > or inangold-wurzel 

 will feed -. 300 days. 



Making very liberal allowance for the difference 

 in the expense of raising these crops, and for any 

 error the committee may have made in fixing the dai- 

 ly rations, or in the produce of each to the acre, they 

 think that no doubt can for a moment be entertained, 

 that the Swedish turnip and the mangold-wurzel are 

 decidedly the best crops that can be raised for feed- 

 ing cattle. 



The committee have no doubt that the sugar-beet 

 and carrot offer advantages nearly or quite equal 

 to the roots above recommended. Their product 

 and nutritive properties are very similar, and the 

 expense of culture is not very dissimilar. The su- 

 gar-beet is probably richer in nutriment than the 

 mangold-wurzel, though its product is ordinarily 

 less. The carrot may require more labour in the 

 culture ; but it is superior as food, particularly for 

 horses. 



Arthur Young highly extols the carrot. Upon the 

 product of three acres of this root, he assures us he 

 kept, for more than five months, twenty work-horses, 

 four bullocks, and six milch cows ; nor did the ani- 

 mals during that period, he adds, taste any food ex- 

 cept a little hay. Our enterprising fellow-citizen, 

 Col. Meacham, of Oswego, has gone largely into the 

 culture of carrots as cattle-feed, as well as many of 

 his neighbours ; and they speak highly of the profits 

 of the culture. 



Some very satisfactory experiments have also 

 been made among us, on a limited scale, in cultiva- 

 ting and feeding the sugar-beet. There seems to be 

 little doubt, from the high state of perfection and of 

 profit which the business has arrived at in France 

 and Germany, that the culture of this beet will soon 



