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in our husbandry. Taking a succession of years, 

 and a variety of kinds, roots may be raised at an ex- 

 pense of twelve and a half cents per bushel ; perhaps 

 for less. As aids in working off the coarser kinds of 

 fodder, while the stock is kept in good condition ; as 

 means of increasing the quantity of milk, beef, and 

 pork on the farm ; and not least, as agents in enrich- 

 ing and increasing the manure heap, they fully repay 

 the expense which obtains them. Taking both 

 cost and worth into the account, perhaps neither the 

 ruta baga, sugar beet, nor carrot, is to be preferred 

 to the exclusion of the others. Let them all be cul- 

 tivated. For milch cows, the sugar beet will proba- 

 bly be found the best ; for horses and swine, carrots 

 will be preferred. One Winter's trial with two hors- 

 es has proved that a peck of carrots per day is quite 

 as good for a horse as four quarts of oats ; when 

 boiled, swine thrive well upon them. One eighth, 

 and perhaps a larger portion of all the land which a 

 farmer tills, may profitably be appropriated to the 

 root culture. 



Let not the advance and spread of total abstinence 

 principles, cause you to set less value upon the or- 

 chard. Apples are worth as much for cattle and 

 hogs, as they ever were lor cider. Trial was made 

 a few years since with two cows. One ate a peck 

 of raw apples through a week ; the other had none. 

 The next week the apples went to the other crib. 

 The third week the first cow again received them. 

 Then came the second one's turn, and thus they 

 went round. The milk from these cows was meas- 

 ured, and each peck of apples produced about one 



