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I then fed with carrots as before, the next seVerr days, snd 

 there was less than one gallon increase. I continued the' 

 same feed alternately for the next four weeks ending March 

 12lh ; during which time the cows fell oft" some in their 

 milk, but not more than one gallon when fed on hay only, 

 than when carrots were added. The hay used during the 

 trial was first quality English hay^ with a small foddering 

 of salt hay in the morning. I continued feeding the same 

 kind of hay night and morning, giving at noon as much row- 

 en hay as they would eat in thirty to forty mmntes, ^yhich 

 increased the milk more than one quart to each cow daily 

 for the next four we^ks. By this time I was fully satisfied 

 it would not pay to raise carrots for milch cows, and that I 

 would try some other method. 



In April, 1851, I prepared and sowed the same piece of 

 land with onions, where carrots grew the year previous^ 

 Tising the same quantity of manure. The yiel-d was on© 

 hundred and sixty-eight bushels, which I sold for forty- 

 seven cents per bushel, amountrng to seventy-eight dollars- 

 and ninety-six cents. In November following I boughJ 

 four tons of shorts in Boston, at nineteen dollars per ton—* 

 freight to Bradford one dollar and forty-five cents per touj 

 making eighty-one dollars and eighty cents, or two dollars 

 and eighty-six cents more than the onions brought. I then- 

 had four tons or about four hundred bushels of shorts, cost- 

 ing bnt two dollars and eighty-six cents more than the one 

 hundred and fifty-six bushels of carrots. I think the labor 

 was no more to raise the onions than the carrots, and the 

 labor less to feed the cows with shorts than with carrots. 



December 1st, 1851, I commenced giving my cows from 

 four to eight quarts oi shorts each per day, and continued 

 through the winter, except eight days in February 1 left off 

 feeding fcur cow-s with shorts that had been having eigh- 



