ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 
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October. I raised eighty bushels of rutabagas and four hun- 
dred bushels of carrots, and gave them to my cows, commenc- 
ing the 1st of December. I gave them about 2J bushels 
per day, at noon, the rutabagas first, and when they were all 
fed out, the same quantity of carrots. I found, when I had 
fed the latter a few days, that my cows were each giving 
from two to three pints of milk more per day, than when 
fed on rutabagas. I was feeding my cows, meanwhile, with 
cut hay, and 2 lbs. oilcake and meal, and 2| lbs. wheat screen- 
ings, ground. The thought struck me that I should like to 
know the value of carrots for making milk, so I selected the 
cow that calved last for the trial. I weighed the hay, meal, 
and carrots, and fed her on 27 lb. of hay, 4J lb. of mixed 
meal, and 22 lb. of carrots, and she gave 35 lb. of milk per 
day. I then left off the carrots and gave the same amount 
of meal, and all the hay she would eat, which was 33 lbs. per 
day. After feeding so for a week, I found she gave 23 lb. 
of milk per day, I then gave her the carrots as before, and 
in eight or ten days she came up again to 35 lb. of milk 
per day. This shows that carrots are worth to me, to feed 
cows, 82 cents per 103 lb. Hay is worth 20 dollars per ton 
in the barn, and at 3 cents per quart, or one cent per 
pound for milk; 61b. less hay, and 12 lb. more milk, gives 
18 cents for 22 lb. of carrots. My carrots are all gone now, 
or I would try one or two more cows. Next winter I 
hope to have another opportunity for experiment. — Abner 
Haven, Rural New Yorker . 
ARMY APPOINTMENTS. 
As several appointments of veterinary surgeons have been 
recently made, both by the War Office and the Board of 
Ordnance, and as many changes have likewise taken place 
among regimental veterinary surgeons, consequent upon the 
active service of the army in the East, we give the list corrected 
up to this date, and shall continue to notice any further altera- 
tions which may occur. 
Those marked * are serving in the Crimea. 
Those marked f are Assistant Veterinary Surgeons. 
Wilkinson John, Esq. 
Stockley, W., Esq. 
fBarker, John, Esq. . . 
Brennan, Jas., Esq. . . 
Brett, Chas. C., Esq. . . 
*Byrne, John, Esq. . . 
. Principal Veterinary Surgeon 
to the Army. 
. Senior Veterinary Surgeon to 
the Board of Ordnance. 
. 1st or King’s Dragoon Guards. 
. Royal Artillery. 
. Cavalry Depot, Maidstone. 
. 4th Light Dragoons. 
