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The Statistics Jjpproved. — Mr. Meigs repeated what he had be- 

 fore stated, that by a report to Parliament, in 1844 or 1845, it 

 appeared that the entire agriculture of the year in Great Britain 

 was worth three thousand millions of dollars, of which the tur- 

 nip amounted to nearly one half. So much for one root! 



Judge Van "Wyck : They cannot raise our Indian corn, if they 

 could they would find it superior feed to roots. 



Mr. Meigs : Carrots are equal, bushel for bushel, to corn or 

 oats, and 800 bushels can be had off an acre, and at most, a hun- 

 dred of corn, or fitty of oats. 



Prof Mapes : If England was compelled to exchange all her 

 roots for crops of Indian corn it would bankrupt her As to car- 

 rots, parsnips, &c., experiment has distinctly shown that in feed- 

 ing for pork, the roots make it for four and a half cents a pound, 

 and corn for twelve and a half cents a pound. Campbell, of New 

 Jersey, has fully demonstrated this and so have I. The carrot fed 

 to cows in winter along Avith other feed, makes rich yellow but- 

 ter in winter, equal to summer Goshen. Grow ruta baga on the 

 best old farming plan with the richest barn -yard manure, and 

 try the super phosphate of lime, and you will find the crop dou- 

 ble and of far better quality, and more durable to keep. In feed- 

 ing cows with roots we should avoid giving them near the time 

 of milking. The taste and smell of the milk is not afiected if the 

 roots are fed to the cow some time before milking. The carrot 

 aids the digestion of the horse so as to make his dung homoge- 

 neous — digests everything. Corn, (Indian) although cracked, 

 commonly enough is, much of it, passed undigested, and other an- 

 ima-lsf^ed upon it. To sick animals I give carrots two days and 

 they get well. 



American Instittte, ? 

 Farmers^ Club, Jhig. 5, 1851. ) 



Judge Van Wyck in the Chair, H. Meigs, Secretary. 



T. Selleck, of 51 Liberty street, New- York, produced speci- 

 mens of Patent Zinc Paints, manufactured by the New-Jersey 

 Mining and Exploring Company. These paints are made at New- 

 ark, New- Jersey, of the zinc mineral of Sussex county. The dark 



