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ed scale with them, and, Providence permitting, we 

 shall go more extensively into it another season. They 

 require a little more care when they first come up, and 

 are smaller than rata baga, but are not so difficult as 

 the carrot. They seem to be more nourishing than 

 any other root, and chemical analysis warrants this 

 idea. They will keep in the ground during the 

 winter, but must be dug before they vegetate much in 

 the spring. They will not keep so well in the summer 

 as the ruta baga. The farmers in the Island of Jersey, 

 near England, are said to make their main dependence 

 upon this root, and their cattle and swine are thereby 

 rendered very profitable. The only objection that we 

 know of to the carrot is the trouble it gives in weeding 

 when it first comes up. Its small leaves so much re- 

 semble some of the weeds, that, if the ground is very 

 foul, it requires careful management to avoid hoeing it 

 up with them. We have seen the good effects of these 

 upon a horse to which they were given during the 

 winter season. They certainly are preferable to oats, 

 or, at any rate, were for that horse. The animal was a 

 very fleet one, and belonged to a neighboring physician 

 who had a great deal for him to do ; and yet he kept 

 in perfect condition with no other food than good hay, 

 and from a peck to a half bushel of carrots per day. 



The mangel-wurtzel will yield, when put in a favor- 

 able situation, as much per acre, perhaps, as any other 

 root. John Hare Powell once raised sixteen hundred 

 and thirty-four bushels to the acre and fourteen rods ; 

 and Messrs. H. & T. Little, of Newbury, raised 

 thirty-three tons, ten hundred and fourteen pounds to 

 the acre. But English writers have told us of sixty 

 tons to the acre. We believe that it requires a richer 

 soil than ruta baga, and more of a clayey loam. Hogs 

 are very fond of them. We saw Mr. Hains, of Hal- 

 lowell, feeding his swine with them last fall, raw; and 

 the manner in which they took hold of them, and the 

 good condition which they exhibited, convinced us 



