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clover chaff, were again weighed at the end of one month, 

 and found to have gained 12^ pounds each. 



"No. 16. — Ten lambs penned upoii drum-head cabbage, 

 with cut clover chaff, and weighed as above 5 they gained 

 10^ pounds each. 



" No. 1 7. — Ten lambs placed upon grass and fed upon cut 

 Swedes and cabbage, of equal quantities, with clover chaff, 

 gained 9f lbs. each. 



"No. 18.^- Ten lambs placed upon grass and fed upon cut 

 white turnips and cabbage, of equal quantities, with clover 

 chaff, gained 11 lbs. each. 



" Having frequently given my kmbs carrots during the 

 winter and spring months, and to no apparent advantage, 

 when compared with other roots, I determined to test their 

 qualities after the expiration of the above experiments, and the 

 No. 16 lot were supplied with what Swedes they would eat, 

 and the No^ 17 lot with carrots. 



"No. 19. — Ten lambs, fed upon cut Swedes and clover- 

 chaff, having been weighed at the end-- of the other experi- 

 ment, were again weighed on the, 9th of December. They 

 were found to have gained during the month 10 lbs. each, 

 and consumed 22 lbs. of turnips per day., 



"No. 20. — Ten lambs fed upon cut carrots and clover- 

 chaff, were weighed as above on the 9th of December, and 

 were found to have gained 9^ lbs. each, and consumed 22^ 

 lbs. of carrots' per day. . 



" Thus proving that the carrot can not be given to sheep 

 with equal profit, when compared ■with the Swede turnip, the 

 carrot being more expensive and hazardous in its cultivation, 

 and producing rather less animal food from a given weight 

 at tms season of the year." 



I shall place a further list of English experiments in 

 winter feeds in tjie appendix of this volume. * 



Turnips are not adapted either to the soil or circumstances 

 of all parts of our country where sheep are kept. I have been 

 informed by many of the farmers in those regions of Vermont 

 where the best sheep are raised, that this «rop does not flourish 

 on their farms, f And it would be folly to bring turnips into 

 competition with Indian com, as a habitual winter feed, in 

 our Western States, where the latter crop can be raised for 



* See Appendix C. ^ 



t I raised this qneetion once lu the presence of a number of the leading Bheep 

 breeders of Addison county — the first sheep breeding county in the State— and 

 they without an exception concuiTed in the opinion stated In the text. 



