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CARROTS, MANGOLDS AND SUGAR DEETS. 



our Canada neighbors can be arranged to cut for either class 

 of stock. As good a one as I know of for stock purposes, 

 cheapness, durability and effectiveness combined, is one 

 sometimes known as the Whittemore machine, of which I 

 present an engraving. This machine is capable of cutting 



about two bushels 

 a minute. Exper- 

 iments in England 

 have shown that 5 9 

 pounds of cooked 

 Mangolds are 

 equal to 70 of un- 

 cooked ; but that 

 meat made from 

 steamed food 

 wastes more when 

 boiled. Leaves of 

 Mangolds should 

 be fed with care 

 as they are more 

 apt to scour than 

 those of any other 

 whittemore cutter. root. The reason 



of this is that they contain comparatively a large quantity of 

 ■b poisonous acid, known by chemists as "oxalic" acid, the 

 same that is developed in Rhubarb leaves, when slightly wilt- 

 ed, and which sometimes causes death when such leaves are 

 eaten as "greens." 



The practice sometimes followed in Europe, of feeding 

 the leaves of the growing crop, where labor is very cheap, is 

 thought to pay, as the leaves are gathered just as they begin 

 to drop from their upright position and when their usefulness 

 as nourishers of the root have ended. But with labor as 

 cheap as may be, there is no economy in this, for, aside from 



