Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-08-02

, or labor bestowed on them. They we're ar
excellent crop 70, horses. He did not coin
side in the opinion. stated by the commits.
sioner, of Mr.. Merrill Office, who said tha
for feeding horses he should prefer lot
bushels of carrots and one hundred bushels
of oats to two hundred bushels of oats ye
he deemed them excellent, and much the
bes, root crop raised among US. He had
found it Likewise much easier to keep car.
rots than to keep ruta baga. Ofthelr value
for ia,.ening beefor swine he had no know
ledge.
Mr. Dauforth of Pitts6eld, stated a case
within his own knowledge in which the raj.
sing of carrots cost a. the rate ofeight GEMS
per hushel. Other gentlemen stated that
they had been produced in the state in large
quantities at the rate Of 81 cents per bushel:
Mr.. Abbot of Weslford, was disposed
Ia saiuefuta baga much higher for mich:
cows than Mr.. Brigham, In his own ex.
perience for the increase Of butter, where he
had tried cows in successive weeks upon
pumpkins dnd ruta baga, the increase OF
butter in the use of the latter root was as
ii to 10. A gentleman Of Portsmouth, N.
H., with his knowledge had compared the
value of carrots with potatoes in fattening
beef; and in this experiment, thirty bushels
of potatoes proved equal to sixty of carrots
1t would have been very instructive If Mr..
Abbot could have given the particulars OF
both ofthese experiments more fully; this
we hope he will do, and we shall be happy
to make the N. E. Farmer the vehicle OF
such communications.
Mr.. Perry of Bradford, spoke next of the
value Of roots. In relation 10 the keeping
ofvegetables he thought good deal depen.
ded on the nature of the soil in which the
cellar, where they were stored, was dug. 1t
often happens, he says. that rula baga will
not keep in the same cellar in which pota.
toes and carrots may be kept. Ofthe val.
ue of ruta baga he gave an illustration by
an anecdo,e in which he was party. he
had been accustomed to supply nelghoor
of his with milk. His neighbor inquired
one time why the milk was not as good and
as rich as it had been. Now this inquiry
was made at time when he had ceased TO
give his cows ruta baga, with which before
they had been literally supplied.
Mr.. Buckminster spoke highly ofthe VAL
ue of roots; but seems to be as hostile to
potatoes as the late William Goblet from
which it is but natural to infer that he has
no Irish blood in him. He deems grain
crops an exhausnng crop, and potatoes par.
,icularly. He thinks the evil complained OF,
by which the milk was injured in its taste,
was occasioned by giving the animals TOO
much. ---------
The chairman stated that within his ex-
pericnce it would be safe to feed a busheI
per day to an animal provided they were
kept at the same time on salt.hay.
Mr.. Buckminister pronounced potatoes
q very exhausting crop, and the cultivation
no. 10 be encouraged. To an inquiry as
to the amount Of potatoes usually raised per
acre, he replied from one hundred to one
hundred and fifty bushels, and gave it as his
beliefthat the crop in birmingham did not
exceed one hundred bushels.
Mr.. Bruce Of Grafton was disposed to
defend the potato-crop; and pleasantly re-.
marked that if he obtained not more than
one hundred bushels per acre, he should be
quite disposed % give them up. In his own
cultivation he considered 200 bushels a ligh'
crop-350 bushels good crop. He ha
raised 554 bushels to the acre, and was &C.
cus,omed to use 40 bushels of whole pota'
toes for seed. He is accustomed to plant
them ir hills. He said the crop Of one o.
his noighbors had exceeded 700 bushels tc
The acre. These were certainly cogent ar
guments in reply to the Fram'ngham tar
n1ers.
Potatoes are without question an exhaus.
ting crop, and return little to the land, the
tops amounting to small matter. In oul
practice they are far from being an ame!io
rating crop, because they are cultivated II
the mos, slovenly manner /; they are il
! many cases not hoed moro than once. ant
the weeds afierward usually abound, ant
cover the ground with their seeds. Thl
however is altogether the fault ofthe cult
vator and no, the crop. In neat and clear
husbandry and at yield Of four hundre'
bushels to the acre. land with less than thi
even the birmingham farmers ought not t.
be satisGed) they are valuable crop am
an acre of potatoes will furnish great am
cunt of mos. nutritious food for man an
beast though Cobbett insists upon 1t the.
are nothing bu, so much dirt and water.
Mr.. Denney Of Westboro, stated that h
had fed his cows with carols and ruta baga
and that in changing from carrots to rut
baga the quality Of the milk immedlateI.
became deteriorated.
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