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doubtless preferable to that from coarse dry food ; the health of the 

 aijimals fed upon them is much better. 



Swedish turnips are easily raised and arc a valuable food for cat- 

 tic. One of the most eminent farmers and breeders* in England, 

 at a public meeting in November last, declared that after several 

 years experience he deemed them for feeding stock superior to 

 every other species of vegetable. Mangold Wurtzel is a more pre- 

 carious crop ; it does not keep so late, and is much more likely to 

 be injured by early frosts. It is said likewise, and some instances 

 within our own observation seem to fayorthe belief, that where it is 

 given abundantly to milch cows, while it increases the quantity of 

 milk, it tends to reduce their flesh. We have found the Swedish 

 Turnips a nutritious and excellent root for neat cattle and sheep. 

 Swedish turnips have been kept perfectly free from frost, even dur- 

 ing this inclement winter, by being placed in a vacant mow and se- 

 cured top and sides and bottom with a thick covering and flooring of 

 refuse salt hay. Another advantage of this root is that it may be 

 kept in a sound state until June. Jesse Buel, Esq. of Albany,! ^^^is 

 raised good crops for several years by planting them on land from 

 wliich the same year he had taken a crop of grass. Good crops of 

 nearly four hundred bushels to the acre have been obtained in this 

 County, on land broken up after mowing and planted the ISth of 

 July. The fall however in this caso was unusually favorable ; and 

 the crop would doubtless have been better, if the planting had 

 been earlier. 



We will not quit this part of our subject, without calling the at- 

 tention of farmers to the value of boiled carrots as food for swine. 

 By several accurately conducted experiments, for which he receiv- 

 ed the Agricultural Society's gold medal, Arthur Young, the distin- 

 guished English farmer, demonstrated that boiled carrots as food for 

 rearing and fattening swine were greatly superior to boiled potatoes. 

 If then, as we have grounds to believe from repeated experiments, 

 500 bushels of carrots can bo raised at as little expense as 200 of 

 potatoes, the farmer will fmd no difficulty in making an inference 

 most important to his interests. Wo have a detailed account of 

 these several experiments in relation to boiled carrots, but have no 

 room for their insertion. 



We remark in the next place upon a practice too common among 



* The Rov. Ilcnry Berry, British Farmer's Magazine, Nov. 1820. p. 481. 

 t See Note B at the end. 



