CARROTS, MANGOLDS AND SUGAR BEETS. 



great increase in the crops, — so tnat it has been wisely said, 

 root culture lies at the basis of good husbandry. 



Carrots and Mangolds are subject to but few diseases. 

 In discussing the nutritious value, chemists differ somewhat, 

 according as they measure this by the nitrogen they contain, 

 their per cent, of dry matter or sugar, but they agree 

 in ranking them much superior to the early varieties 

 of turnip and somewhat superior to the Ruta Baga or 

 Swede class, particularly when fed to full grown cattle. Prof. 

 Johnson ranks Carrots with Cabbage when fed to oxen, for 

 nourishment, and experiments appear to have proved that 

 when equal measures of each are fed, Mangolds will give a 

 greater increase of milk than potatoes, by about a third. For 

 some reason not fully understood, (perhaps the depth they 

 penetrate the soil has something to do with it ;) Onions will 

 do better after Carrots than after any other crop, the yield 

 being larger, the bulb handsomer, while the crop will bottom 

 down earlier and better. Unlike Turnips or Swedes, with 

 high manuring the crop can be profitably grown for years on 

 the same piece of land. Swine prefer Mangolds to any root 

 except the parsnip, and both in this country and in England 

 store hogs, weighing from 125 lbs. and upwards have been 

 carried through the winter in fine condition, when fed whol- 

 ly on raw Sugar Beets or Mangolds. Chemists rank Carrots, 

 when compared with oats, with reference to their fat and 

 flesh forming qualities as 1 to 5. 



Xot only have roots a value in themselves as food, but 

 they have a special office, taking to a large degree the place 

 of grass and preventing tne constipation that dry feed some- 

 times causes. While practice proves that they should not 

 be relied upon to entirely supersede hay or grain, still they 

 increase the value of either of these to a large degree ; and 

 for slow working stock they may be fed with profit in place 

 of from a third to half the grain usually given. Carrots add 



