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THE WHEAT CIJLTIIRIST. 



The pumpkins or roots to be cut are put in the box so 

 that they come in contact with the cylinder, the upper 

 side of which is shown in the figure. The cylinder is 

 hollow, being made of hard iron. Small gouge-shaped 

 cutters are secured to the surface of the cylinder, which 

 gouge out pieces of the vegetables about as large as a 

 man's thumb. Such pieces are of convenient size for 

 sheep or any other stock to eat with facility. A small 

 lad or girl can cut a bushel of roots in about one min- 

 ute, with comparative ease. 



The cutters can be adjusted to cut very fine, or 

 coarse. If the knives become dull, the edge can be put 

 in order in a few minutes with a round file. If vege- 

 tables and apples could be reduced to a fine pulp before 

 they are fed to stock, the animals would extract more 

 nourishment from the feed, than if such coarse materials 

 were simply run through a vegetable cutter. 



It is an excellent practice, when feeding stock of any 

 kind with cut or pulped vegetables, to mingle meal of 

 any kind of grain with the pulped feed, as there is al- 

 ways more or less advantage in mingling several kinds 

 of food together, before animals are supplied with their 

 usual allowance. Every wheat grower should have 

 such a root cutter. When raising roots, feeding stocky 

 and growing wheat are properly combined, our country 

 will be noted for beautiful crops of excellent wheat. 



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