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root3 we most recommend are mangold-wurtzel, sugar-beet, and 

 carrots. Turnips, and ruta-baga, aside from giving their own taste 

 to the milk, are uncertain crops in our dry and hot climate, and 

 the fly often destroys them altogether. They are an English 

 crop, and are better fitted to its moist, cool summers, than to 

 ours. As a crop to be depended on we do not recommend them. 

 The other roots named are easily raised, and generally sure. 

 Roots, of any kind, should always be well cleaned, and cut in a 

 machine, or by a spade, or knife, before feeding to the cow. The 

 situation and locality of the dairyman, and his facilities for obtain- 

 ing grain feed, must measurably control his choice of these extra 

 articles. The food should be given three times a day — morning, 

 noon, and night. 



In addition to her feeding, the cow should be kept clean, in a 

 warm, well ventilated stable, and bedded with straw, or other 

 coarse litter; and if the time can be spared, curried over daily 

 with a card. She should be salted as often as once a week, at 

 least — a trifle of salt daily, or tri-weekly would be better — and 

 looked after as carefully as her condition requires. The cow is 

 a part of the working capital of the dairyman, farmer, or house- 

 keeper, and no good manager can afford to neglect her. We 

 may have repeated this injunction in other places; but "line 

 upon line, and precept upon precept," need not be considered 

 superfluous in a work of this importance. 



