SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE, 247 



What can you say of growing carrots, and of the nse to which 

 they should be put ? 220. 



What is the composition of turnips, and the best use to be made 

 of them ? 221. 



What of potatoes ? 222. If used for cattle, or other animals, 

 how is their value increased ? 222. 



What is said of apples raw ? 223. Cooked ? 223. Of cooking 

 food in general ? 223. • 



Should coarse hay and straw be cut ? 224. Why ? 224. 



What would you say of letting stock to be wintered become 

 poor at the threshold of winter? 225. On the heels of winter? 

 225. What would you advise with regard to both the fall and 

 the spring ? 225. Why ? 225. 



What advice would you give with regard to young cattle ? 226. 



To what are all animals subject ? 227. Explain this further ? 

 227. 



What is said of milk in section 228 ? In 229 ? In 230 ? In 

 231? In 232? In 233? In 234? In 235? In 236? In 237? 

 In 238 ? 



What is said of butter in 239? In 240? In 241 ? In 242 ? 

 In 243? In 244? In 245? In 246? In 247? In 248? In 

 249? In 250? In 251? In 252? In 253? In 254? In 255? 



What is said of cheese in 256? In 257? In 258? In 259? 

 In 260? In 261? In 262? In 263? In 264? In 265? In 

 266? In 267? In 268? In 269? 



MANURES. 



Into how many and what classes may lands be distributed with 

 relation to manure ? 272. 



What three kinds of land belong to the first class ? 273. What 

 is said of lands belonging to the second class? 274. On what 

 condition are these to be cultivated? 274. What of lands be- 

 longing to the third class ? 275. 



Of the three soils of which an analysis is given by Professor 

 Johnstone, which exhibits no deficiencies? 276. In what is the 

 second deficient? 276. In what the third? 



Would the first of these soils produce any one of the crops men- 

 tioned in Table V., without manure ? 276 and 277. How does 

 this appear? 276 and 277. How does it appear that the second 

 would nroduce, by the addition of potash, soda and chlorine ? 276 

 and 277. What of the third ? 278. 



What would you do with such a soil as the first? 279. As the 

 second? 279 and 280. Would the special manuring, recom- 

 mended for the second, answer permanently ? 281. 



What would farming become, if reliable analyses of soils could 

 in all cases be obU'.ae^ ? 282. Explain the benefit of such know- 

 ledge? 282. 



