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this crop in supplying neat stock, sheep, and swine, 

 with food through our long winters is just beginning 

 to be appreciated. Its value is differently estimated by 

 persons who have used it. Some think that forty 

 bushels are equal to a ton of hay ; others consider them 

 as good as oats, pound for pound. A gentleman who 

 made some very accurate experiments in feeding them 

 to his team of four oxen, found it to be equal to half its 

 weight in corn-meal. There is one fact in which all 

 agree ; that is, cattle that are fed plentifully on roots 

 during the winter are not so liable to have those dis- 

 eases which are generally prevalent among cattle in 

 the spring. 



The only opportunity we ever had of witnessing the 

 advantages of feeding roots was with a cow, which re- 

 sulted in a firm conviction of their utility. Instead of 

 becoming poor in the spring, she left the barn in excel- 

 lent condition ; gave a much larger mess of milk 

 through the winter than usual ; and, instead of going 

 dry six or eight weeks before calving, as she always had 

 done before, she gave milk to the very da)?" she calved, 

 and during the next summer she gave nearly a third 

 more than she had ever given before in the same time 

 on equally as good keeping. — Maine Farmer. 



FARM-CARTS. 



The rims of the wheels of farm-carts should be about 

 four inches wide. We have had them one third 

 wider, but such are not so durable or so useful. A six- 

 inch felloe is much more liable to rot than a four-inch 

 felloe ; it is also heavier and more unwieldy ; and a rim 

 of iron, or the tire, on such a wide felloe, must be put 

 on in pieces, or in narrow strips. This mode of tiring 



