CABROTS. 



THE ARGUMENT FOR THE RAISING OF ROOTS. 



The fact that the most progressive and successful farmers 

 in the dairy districts, where the prices received for the pro- 

 ducts of the dairy stimulates to the highest enterprise, are 

 raisers of roots, (by which I now more especially refer to 

 Carrots or Mangold Wurtzel) in about the same degree as 

 they are pecuniarily successful, is in itself a great practical 

 argument for root culture. 



In nutritious value roots compare with hay in about the 

 average proportion of one to three. If now we consider 

 that thirty-four tons of Swedes, nearly forty tons of Carrots 

 and seventy-four tons of Mangold roots have been raised in 

 Massachusetts, to the acre, and that to each of these crops 

 should be added at least 15 per cent, for the fodder value of 

 the yield of leaves, which were not included in these esti- 

 mates, we have a demonstration of how immensely more is 

 the nourishment that can be obtained from an acre of root ; 

 than from an acre in hay. Such an immense increase 

 in the nourishing products of the farm, if fed on the pre- 

 mises as it should be, unless the farmer is so located that 

 he can buy manure cheaper than he can make it, means a 

 great increase in the manure products, and consequently a 



