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which he fed thirty bushels, with hay, and 

 made her very fat indeed, so that she was 

 sought by the butchers at a high price. In 

 preparing the land for turnips, he pulver- 

 ized it well, and levelled with brush har- 

 row. The seed was sown in drills, marked 

 out with a machine prepared by himself. 

 The labor of sowing in that way was very 

 little, and they were weeded principally 

 with a wheel hoe. He had recently seen 

 a plan of a cultivator which weeded both 

 sides of a row at once, but he had not seen 

 it tried. 



Mr. J. L. Lovertng, of Vermont, said 

 that though root crops were perhaps less 

 cultivated in Vermont than Massachusetts, 

 there are few farmers who do not raise 

 more or less. They raise many sheep, 

 and it is becoming an axiom that no farm- 

 er can have a good flock of merino sheep 

 who does not feed them with roots as of- 

 ten as twice a week. The green food 

 seems to prevent some of the diseases to 

 which they are subject when not thus fed. 

 Ruta bagas are raised principally for feed- 

 ing stock. He had not succeeded well- 

 with getting his carrots to germinate, as 

 for some cause or other the seed failed ; 

 but when they came up well, he had no 

 difficulty in obtaining a large crop. He 

 had raised at the rate of twelve hundred 

 bushels to the acre, add he thought them 

 better than ruta bagas. Potatoes are still 

 fed to stock a good deal in Vermont. Many 

 are raised, and if they will not bring in 

 market about twenty-five cents a bushel, 

 they are considered worth that to feed out. 

 Some farmers cook ruta bagas before feed- 

 ing, and one gentleman had recently fat- 

 tened a pair of old cattle with ruta bagas 

 worth twice as much when cooked as when 

 fed raw. Turnips are fed to sheep, and 

 are thought to he better for them than 

 carrots, or other roots, producing a better 

 quality of milk for the lambs. 



Gen. Towne, of Worcester county, had 

 a very high opinion of the importance of 

 roots for feeding stock ; the sugar beet, 

 for beef and for stock generally, was in 

 his opinion, decidedly the best root that 

 grows. One great advantage in raising 

 teem is, that the tops are very good indeed 

 for young hogs. He always meant to 

 have some pigs about the first of Septem- 

 ber, so that about the first of October the 

 milk of the mother would hardly be suffi- 

 cient for them. Then he had a yard of 



sugar beets near, and he would make a 

 little hole in the fence so that the pigs 

 might understand they were getting into 

 mischief by getting among the beets, and 

 they will eat off all the leaves, which are 

 as good as green corn for them, and the 

 eating of them off does not injure the 

 crop at all. He thought the leaves more 

 than paid for the labor of raising those 

 which were near the hog pen. 



Genesee Farmer. 



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