CARROTS OR NO CARROTS. 169 



Mr. . I have made it a rule to raise vegetables 



for my stock for ten years. I have found carrots to do about as 

 well on the same land, year after year, as the onion does. I 

 have raised a good crop of carrots for eight years in succession 

 on the same land. I have great deference for the gentleman 

 who has addressed you, but we differ in opinion. 



Col. Wilder. The experience of the last speaker has been 

 mine. I could not do without carrots for my horses. I find 

 them a very economical article. My method of feeding is to 

 give my horses a peck of carrots four times a week, at night, 

 and it saves me half a peck of oats. Whether or not the car- 

 rots have an equal pecuniary value, I will not undertake to say ; 

 but I have found them very beneficial. I have never been able 

 to make my horses eat turnips. The doctor has a faculty of 

 doing almost everything he attempts to do, and I have no doubt, 

 from what he says, that his horses do eat turnips. 



Mr. FooTE. The human animal can be educated to eat to- 

 bacco, and I have no doubt a horse can be educated to eat tur- 

 nips ; but I do not believe he would do it naturally. 



Dr. LoRiNG. I do not mean to go into the turnip question 

 again, but I want to say a word in behalf of my horses. I have 

 turned my attention a good deal to the breeding of horses. I 

 like a good horse. I have got some good ones, and I mean to 

 have, as long as I can raise them or find them in the market. 

 Comparing the carrot and turnip crop, I learned by experience, 

 in the first place, that the carrot crop was an expensive, trouble- 

 some crop to raise. I believe, my friends, in perpendicular 

 agriculture ; I do not believe in any more horizontal agricul- 

 ture than you must have ; you must have a little. That is, I 

 believe in cultivating the soil standing bolt upright, and not 

 upon your hands and knees. The carrot crop is one of those 

 things that keep a man's nose as near to the ground as he 

 can get it. It is an expensive crop ; it needs a great deal of 

 manure ; it needs good soil and a monstrous amount of faith ; 

 and, above all, hard work. If you will insist on raising carrots, 

 I trust and hope that some ingenious mechanic will invent a 

 macliine which will not only clean out the weeds, but fork the 

 land over and clean out the roots for you. 



Then another thing. When I came to feed carrots to my 

 cows, I did not find any more benefit than I do — you will ex- 



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