136 DESCRIPTION OF FEEDING STUFFS 
Turnips (Brassica rapa) are low in dry matter, containing often 
a smaller percentage thereof than mangels (less than 10 per cent, 
on the average) ; the yields obtained are similar to those of mangels. 
They are especially valuable for sheep feeding, and are also some- 
times fed to cattle. When fed to milch cows they impart a strong 
turnip flavor.to the milk, unless fed after milking; the same diffi- 
culty is likely to occur in the case of rutabagas and other crops of 
the mustard family (Crucifere). Turnips do not keep as well as 
mangels or rutabagas, and must be fed out during the fall or 
early winter. 
Sugar beets (Beta vulgaris) are grown for the manufacture 
of beet sugar in the western States and in Michigan, Wisconsin, 
Fic, 24.—Carrots for stock feeding (Improved Rubicon and Danvers Half-long), fairly 
easy to harvest and capable of good yields. (Cornell Station.) 
and other central States, and are of minor importance for stock 
feeding. Their culture is more difficult and exacting than that 
of other root crops, and the yields obtained are smaller, viz., about 
12 tons, on an average; owing to their relatively high per cent of 
dry matter, 15 to 18 per cent (of which at least four-fifths is 
sucrose), they will, however, generally yield about as much dry 
matter per acre as other root crops. 
Sugar beets are greatly relished by stock and often fed, pulped 
or sliced, to milch cows, fattening cattle, sheep, and swine, espe- 
cially when these are being fitted for exhibitions. 
Carrots (Daucus carota, Fig. 24) are considered particularly 
valuable as a horse feed, but are also fed occasionally to cows. The 
