302 Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 
Mr. Behtoji: How much ground did that twenty-five dollars 
cover? 
Mr. Smith: I can’t tell you. The crop was about six hundred 
bushels, less than five cents a bushel/ That includes simply the 
raising of the carrots after the ground was prepared. Parsnips can 
be raised just about as cheap as carrots. The crop can be grown 
where your ground is rich and deep. As many bushels of parsnips 
can be raised to the acre as of mangel-wurzels. General^ they 
may be left safely in the ground all winter. 
Mr. Alleh: I would like to ask Mr. Smith how he manages to 
harvest the parsnips. 
Mr. Smith: There is more expense in harvesting parsnips than 
either the carrot or the beet. On my soil, a slight sandy loam, one 
can go along with a spade and shove it down into the ground and 
loosen the earth, and another pull them up and top them. 
Mr. Hazeh: I have been interested somewhat in this root-crop 
for milch-cows. I have had some experience in dairying for a 
number of years. My dairy has been a cheese-dairy. I suppose 
what will apply to the cheese-dairy will apply to the butter-dairy. 
On my farm I cannot afford to raise roots for my cows. I have 
not much help of my own, hence have to hire. Labor is pretty 
high in this country. In one way and other the weeds got the 
start of me. I have as good a farm for weeds as I ever saw. I can 
raise a good crop of anything by taking care of it. I find more 
profit in raising corn for cows than in attempting to raise roots for 
them. I keep what is called a summer-dairy; calculate to have the 
cows come in the last of March to the first of May, and milk them 
through the summer. Our business is to get a good flow of milk 
through the summer season. We get our cows wintered through 
in pretty good condition, using meal, bran, and shorts. I have a 
wind-mill of my own, so I grind iny own feed. I sow a crop of 
corn in drills for soiling. When it gets large enough, I cut 
it up. I pursue the course, stated here by Mr. Curtis, in sow¬ 
ing corn. Drilling is the best. I get a better crop by cultivating 
it some, especially on my weedy farm. Generally about the mid¬ 
dle or the twentieth of July, the com gets large enough to cut up. 
Then I cut it up and let it wilt one or two days. There is too 
much water in it when it is first cut up. I draw my corn down 
to the pasture and scatter it about, what I think my cows will eat 
