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ted in the most anciL-nt times. We do not grow it much. I have 

 seen it flourish in Valencia, of Spain, and it will grow just as 

 well on Long Island. It will furnish as much milk as any other 

 feed. Alderney cows are said to give the richest butter in the world. 

 Guernsey which feeds them on Lucerne and Parsnips, can do it, but 

 the Aldernies don't give us such butter here. If we should feed them 

 as Guernsey does I have no doubt we should have as rich butter. 



Obadiah Elliot, of Jersey. — On my farm I have had two crops in 

 the season. First potatoes, which I dug about the tenth of July, 

 then Ruta Bagas, dug in the fall. I had two hundred bushels of 

 potatoes per acre, and five hundred bushels of turnips. I ridged up 

 the potatoe field wih a pair of cattle. I raked off the lumps, then 

 dragged a roller, drawn by one horse over it; the roller having ridges 

 on it to make drills eight inches apart. I had these drills in rows, 

 three feet Vvide. I had put on twenty bushels of fine bone dust, not 

 the common coarse article, that don't act quick enough. After plant- 

 ing the seed, I dragged a roller (without any ridges on it) over the 

 drills; this moved about a half inch of earth over the seeds, and 

 pressed them well in. I pulled these turnips in November. (By the 

 way, I always left three turnips in a place, two of them for the flies 

 and one for myself; I choosing the best. These turnips were, many 

 of them, from ten to fourteen pounds weight. You could hardly put 

 one in a man's hat. When I was sixteen, (in England,) my father 

 gave me the care of four oxen, six years old, turned off from the 

 yoke in October, in good working order. I fed them myself with 

 Ruta Bagas and hay, and turned them off to the butcher the follow- 

 ing March, averaging fourteen hundred pounds weight each. I pre- 

 served my Ruta Bagas by putting them in trenches two feet deep 

 and two and one-half feet wide, on ground sloping and arranged so 

 as to carry all the rain* away from the trenches. They will bear 

 some frost if you do not move them. Horse, ox, cow, pig, and sheep, 

 like them. As to hay I never let my clover go beyond the full head. 

 I make it in cocks as tall as possible, three feet high, with as small 

 a base as possible, leave it out two nights, then, if the weather is 

 fine, open it. I find the handle of my fork becomes clammy, gluti- 

 nous, from the rich juice of the clover, and I have to wipe it dry in 

 order to handle it comfortably. This hay with a peck of salt to the 

 two-horse wagon load, kept perfectly. After its being in mow a day 

 or two, I take an iron spindle, made for that purpose, about six feet 

 long, as thick as my fore finger, barbed at the point; I run it hori- 



• These trenches must have air holes at every three feet — closed by Joose straw. 



