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there will be a bitter taste to the milk, and it is impossible to pre- 

 vent this, so far as I know. The best feed for milk is the Silesian 

 eugar-beet ; it is sweeter than the common beet, and round like a 

 turnip. I have raised 1,500 bushels per acre. I find roots are not 

 lit to enter into competition with corn. They become soft and stringy 

 when growing, and make poor food generally. For ewes with lambs 

 by their side, the Silesian beet is very good ; it causes a flow of good 

 milk, and I can raise early lambs by feeding them better than with 

 any other roots. 



Mr. John Crane — There is no better way to feed roots than to 

 cut them and sprinkle some cotton-seed meal on them. I have fed 

 thousands of bushels, and I have found the Silesian beet to be the 

 best. 



Mr. Hauser — In Germany turnips are not raised ; the mangel is 

 the sole dependence among farmers there for winter feed. Eighty 

 pounds a day, with hay and meal, is the allowance, and I never knew 

 any bad taste to the butter ; but they are more suitable to feed when 

 the milk is sold, and not churned, as they make a large quantity of 

 milk, but very weak and poor. 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble — I have had no experience with the mangel 

 wurzel. The bitter taste it gives to milk and butter can probably be 

 avoided in the same way as with turnips. Some years ago I had a 

 very large crop of the common field turnip which I wished to feed 

 to my cows, but knowing the prejudice of the family I consulted an 

 old dairyman in the neighborhood. He told me to begin feeding 

 them moderately, while the cows were still running on the grass, and 

 gradually increase. In a few weeks they had half a bushel or more a 

 day, and this was continued all winter. Of course they had all the 

 hay and stalks they wanted, and with each portion of cut turnips 

 there was a good sprinkling of Indian meal. The consequence was 

 a free supply of milk and butter, and the most sensitive taster never 

 suspected that the cows had been fed upon turnips. The turnips 

 were given both morning and evening. 



Peaches in New Jersey. 



Mr. D. F. Easton, New York city — Will the Club please tell me 

 what county in New Jersey is best adapted to the growth of such 

 fruit as peaches, pears and cherries ; and also where they are grown 

 most largely. 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble — As to the peach crop in New Jersey, I can 

 remember when nearly all the peaches grown in New Jersey, were 



