The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1861-03-30
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TINS question ''beiDg stu before the
meeting respectfully submit my views.
! have raised this root for feeding pur-
poees for eight years, and have never sold
my surplus crop for less than twenty-five
lceuts buslel. consider Il the best Of
all roots for horses, and next to the sugar
beet us a feed for mich cows. feed
daily from four quarts to peek, with two
quarts Of Indian meal, or Of oats, With rs
much cut hay as the horse can eat. More
or less roots are given according 10 the
amount Of work done, The horse keeps
in better condition on this feed than when
fed exclusively with hay and oats. They
give q gloss TO the skin which / have
never noticed with any other feed that
nave tried.
\ also used them for mich cows until ]
raised the sugar beet, which l find TO
! yield more largely than the carrot, and TO
Increase tho flow OF milk. Carrots i'm
prove the quality Of milk, but do not add
so much to It's quantity as some other roots
They are excellent for store pigs, aud for
young cattle, and answer so well for all
kinds Of stock, that am extending tho
cultiyation Of them every year. They are
also growing in favor with my neighbers,
and find no difficulty 10 disposing Of al
my surplus crop to IiyeFy-stable Keepers,
and gentlemen who keep horses ] have
grown them at the rate Of twelve hundred
bushels 70 the acre, and ut q cost Of ten
cents husliel A neighbor raised four
hundred bushels IN his garden, the past
iEseaSou, at the rate Of over 1000 bushels 10
/ the acre. ..tg IL ,,- s.s:ll
| In the oirion-growing districts Of Rhode
i Island and Connecticut, II Is quite com
mon 10 raise them as succession crop.
/ with onions, sowing the carrots betweva
4 CIV .0nianE IN lsne. With heaYY nan.
!, nring, this gives very large fetufns Tue
Icarrots are loaded III slOoIs, and sold in
The, seaport towns along the Sound, ut
about eighteen cents bushel at whole
sale
The valueof the root Is pretty well cs-
tablished in the minds Of men who have
ttrfed il for feeding. john Merrill, Of
South Lee, Mass, raises them at the rate
Of 600 bushels 10 the mere, and ut a cost
Eof four cents bushel, exclusive or the
manure lie considers 100 bushels 81
oats aud 100 bushels Of carrots, worth as,
much as 200 bushels Of oats 10 feed to
team horses.
J. G. CnrWen, OF England, after two
years experiment with eighty horses used
on the farm aud in coal mincs, came 10
the conclusion that carrots were worth rs
much, pound for pound, rs oats, and that
an acre IN carrots, supplies as much food
for working horses Us i6acres Of oats.
According to Josiah Quincy,s expert
ence, al Quincy, Mass, charging labor at
one dollar day, Il costs eleven cents a
bushel to raise carrots Some other ex-
perimenters put them at nine cents q
bushel. This is upon the suppositiol
that the hee is used III wedding. With
horse cultivation, this expense might be
reduced more than half. With the re-
quisite skill, carrots can be grown aud
put in the root bin, ready for use, at
seych cents bnshel. The white Belgian
last year yielded at least 20 per ceut.
more than the Altringhanl. 1 consider
carrots well worth $l2 ton for horse
feed, and should be willing TO give that IL
| could not get them cheaper. Al the
same time, should think them well sold
at $40 ton They would pay much
better than grain crops nj that price.
CoNNEcrIcUr.,