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fed from clover in May. Beef cattle are readily and rapidly 

 fattened when caiTots form part of their food, while horses will 

 accept of carrots in place of half their usual quantity of oats 

 with benefit to themselves. No horse is troubled with heaves 

 when carrots form part of his food. A bushel of oats and a 

 bushel of carrots are more useful to the horse than two bushels 

 of oats, not because the carrot contains as much nutriment, 

 but because it enables the horse to digest the oats and appro- 

 priate its ultimates for flesh making, the formation of bone,&c. 

 When a horse is fed in part on carrots, shells of oats and pieces 

 of cut hay will not be found in his dung, nor will it contain a 

 large amount of starch, causing it to fire-fang, as when oats 

 are used without carrots. 



The feeding of swine may be materially improved by proper 

 economy in the preparation of the food. It has been well set- 

 tled that much less than half the quantity of cooked corn will 

 create one hundred weight of pork to what would be required 

 if not so treated. The Hon. H. L. Ellsworth has settled this 

 fact by a comparative experiment with several hundred hogs. 

 Mr. P. Mason, of Somerville, has also published very accurate 

 experiments on this subject. He found that he could create 

 pork for four and a half cents per pound by the use of cooked 

 food, and when fed with the same class of food in the raw 

 state, the pork would cost ten cents per lb. in his locality. 



The use of root crops in feeding cattle has been fairly settled by 

 the English agriculturist, and Mr. James Campbell, of Weston, 

 who is well known as an exact experimenter among American 

 farmers has published accurate results in the Working Farmer 

 of a course of experiments on feeding cattle with and without 

 the assistance of root crops, by which it is clearly shown that 

 a much greater profit is consequent upon their judicious use. 

 Mr. Campbell has also illustrated in an experiment in subsoil- 

 ing for corn, that on the subsoiled portipns eighty-five ears 

 filled a basket requiring one hundred and fifteen ears from the 

 un-subsoiled portions, the same amount of manure and of the 

 same kinds, having been used in both cases. 



The value of agricultural reports, issued by state and county 

 agricultural societies and consequent upon the holding of fairs, 

 is of material value to the farming interest. These collate a 

 mass of information within the more immediate circle of each 



