Roots and Tubers. Potatoes, artichokes, sugar-beets, mangels, carrots, turnips, 

 cabbage, and ensilage are valuable in the order named. They are conducive to 

 large vital organs and vigorous growth. Five pounds of roots will replace 1 Ib. of 

 grain, if fed with grain in the proportion of one of meal to three or four of roots. 

 Potatoes and turnips are better cooked, but the others can be fed raw. 



Jerusalem Artichokes. These tubers are similar to the potato, and are grown 

 in the same way, in rows about 2 feet apart, and cultivated. In the fall, when the 

 tubers have multiplied, the hogs are turned in to do the harvesting. They root 

 out the artichokes with great gusto. If some tubers are left in they will furnish 



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