Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-05-26
Important to Farmers.

AmpOftaMt 70 EHfmerHs
HINTS ON THE RoOT CRoPs.-We have Just
fed out the last of our carrots and the only
fault we have to find with them, is, that they
are gone. The quadrupeds that have fed
upon them, from the horse in the stable to
the pig in the sty, coincide in this lamenta-
ton. We are sorry that we had not raised
two tuns more, both because our neighbors
want to purchase, and we want more to finish
out the season. We have fed ruta bagas, car
rots, sugar beets and mangel wurzels, and
like them all so well, that we shall plant more
of them all than we have ever raised before.
Each ofthese roots has its peculiar adYan-
tages, and every farmer who has the usual
variety of stock upon his farm, should raise
them all. All domestic animals crave a va
riety offood, and will thrive much better upon
half dozen different kinds, than upon any
one. They not only eat larger quantity OF
food, but it is more perfectly assimilated, and
the farmer GETS a better return for his fodder,
in the growth Of his animals, or in beef milk,
or butter a
We have never found any thing to bring
out horses and COWS in 50 good condition in
the Spring, as diet partially of roots. They
are particularly valuable in the three Spring
months, before cattle are turned out to grass.
They are full Of juice, and are highly relished
with the dry hay and meal TO which cattle are
often confined at this season. They keep the
bowels loose, and the appetite in uniform
good condition We have never had the
slightest case Of illness among animals fed on
roots.
The carrot is the best of roots for horses
fed peck day with other food, they aid
digestion, and keep them in good flesh. We
think diet ofhay, oats, and carrots, half and
half ofthe last two, is the best food we have
ever tried for horses. They work as when
fed with hay and oats. Carrots are also
admirable for much COWS and for young stock
They increase the richness Of the milk, with
out adding any unpleasant favor. This OBJ
lection is brought against a diet of turnips
and for this reason they should be fed to other
aninals-oxen, fatlings, and young CATTLE
The sugar beet is more nutritious than the
ruta bsga or the mangel wurzel, but does not
yield so large crops. The manpel gives The
largest crops TO the acre, sometimes reaching
forty tuns. Its keeping qualities are excel.
lent, and it should come in for feeding in the
Spring months.
AHa5G AO0A1 NlyuOAulAC Aduu- and glOnld
ceive a large share Of attention from those
farmers who live in the suburbs of cities and
villages, where land is dear. The Weld will
vary from Eve hundred to two thousand bush
els to the acre, according to the quality of
the soil, and the amount Of manure and labor
expended upon it. With extraordinary treat
ment, much larger crops than these are some
times realized. The land that produces three
tuns Of fhay TO the acre, may be made to yield
twenty five tuns Of carrots, which would have
I've or six times the nutritiYe value ofthe hay.
In no way can a farmer get so much valuable
fodder upon given piece of land as by root
culture
The bearing of these crops upon the COM
post heap, Is q very important advantage
The manure welded by an animal fed on roots,
is enormous in quantity, and of very rood
quality, though not equal to that made by
feeding grain and oil-meal. Ifproperly cared
for, and mixed with muck under cover it will
take but one season to make a farmer a warm
advocate Ct root crops
The strongest objection brought gainst