The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1852-04-08
iGRiGU TU RAIL.
Vegetables for Mich Cows.

Far
The pleasant discussion agitated by your
intelligent correspondent from Exeter, on tho
feed best adapted to mich cors, and particu-
larly to the value Of carrots for this purpose,
! have read with interest. 1t would seem
that there need not be any difference of OPT
Mon, on a matter Of so common occurrence.
But still ou this, as on most other subjects,
we find very different opinions entertained,
by those of equal intelligence and observa.
ton.
In regard to carrots, it seems TO be admit
teddy all, that they improve the qualify of
the milk, however it may be as to the q,tarl-
fy. 1t is also admitted that they have heal
thy and fattening influence on the animal
that eats them. 1t is certain that they arc
palatablc, for there is no class Of roots de-
voured by the animals with more avidity---
For many years have been familiar with
stock cows, kept for dairy and milk purpo-
ses, to which carrots have been fed more or
less. every year. Without any exact expert
ment as to their value or feed, the impression
other root. If this impression is erroneous
should like to have it demonstrated But
cannot relinquish an opinion, without well
digested facts to the contrary, that I have
cherished from my youth, and which was
taught me by working man of much prac-
tical observation.
remember few years since some of the
best farmers of my acquaintance put forth
the idea that green uorr, cut and fed to COWS
in the months of August and September, and
when the feed Of pastures came short, for
want of moisture, was of little or no value.
Coming from such sources, l thought there
must be something in it and that Pickering
| and Colman and others who. had encouraged
the use of this article, rs valuable for mich
cows, might have been mistaken. Notwith-
standing, opinions put forward, find careful
men, who rely on their milk, products, con-
tinue to grow corn for their cows. And
strongly suspect that the same class of men
will hesitate, before they discard the use OF
carrots entirely. Among the many projects
Of improvement now agitated, know Of no
one more worthy the attention Of careful ep
tivators than the comparative value of crops
| a. feed for milch cows. Every family in tho
land is interested in this subject. No soon
er does the infant inhalc the air Of Heaven,
than some preparations of milk begins TO be
! made for its nourishment in some form or
other, while life lasts. Time was, when the
potatoe was cultivated for the feed of stock;
but of late the voracity Of man is such, that
q few potatoes can be spared for that pur'
pose, unless they are suspected of imprcgni1-
ted with TIE ROT. Turnips also, especially
the ruta baga, have been cracked up, as en-
cellcnt for milch cows, but there are those,
who turn up their noses when turnips are
named, and say they cannot endure the taste
of the milk within the same category. If II
were not for the peculiar flavor impaired to
milk, by feed on turnips and cabbagcs, |
should think these crops would yield more
abundant feed for stock than any others that
can be cultivated On looking over the mum
Der of Transactions for the Essex Society re-
Gently published, perceive the crop OF cab
bage raised by Mr. Mason, of Beverly, eX-
ceeds any vegetable product that has come
to my knowledge The sales from his
grounds the present year exceeded Sl5Op
acre, for several acres. When it 10 consider
ed with how little labor this crop is grown
the land being properly prepared, there would
seem no occasion TO 60 West to raise wheat
at so cents bustel, when labor can be SO
much better rewarded by growing cabbage
in the East.--Neao England Farmer,