Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-04-06

day evening, March IL. Subject
Raising Roots:
IKos. B. Harvey, being called upon,
said he came to learn from experience
of others as to root cutters, having mad
very little experience himself. Would
like to know which was the most
profitable to raise for feeding to stock,
turnips, beets, or carrots, and which
was the most valuable per bushcl-
and called upon the president, Mr..
V. NJ. Hubbard, as he had had as
much or more experience than any
present in raising and feeding roots.
Y. NJ. Hubbard-Have for several
years raised beetS, turnipS and car
rots. Turnips are the sure8t crop,
and carrots are the most valuable per
bushel. TurnipS are good to feed to
young cattle and oxen or sheep to
keep them thriving well; are also
good to feed to ewes to produce milk
but not so good for mich cows
Carrots are the best for tattening an
finals of any kind Beets are the best
for mich COWS, and for sheep in spring,
they will produce more milk than
either turnips or carrots. The best
sheep raisers raise large quantities of
turnips and beetS. Turnip3 to young
sheep and to all sheep to keep them
growing, and beets to ewes to in
crease the milk-would as soon have
fifty pounds of carrots to feed to any
stock except horse, as the same guam
tity of potatoes. Think potatoes bet
ter for horses. Have not had good
success with carrots till the past year,
think | sowed to deep, they did not
come up well. The last year used Il
seed sower, and all the seed seemed
to grow raised 429 bushels from ab-
out IL acre. | give the credit to the
seed sown. | pillow nay land III The
fall, blowing in about % loads OF ina,
nure per acre; Oh old land free from
stones, SOW in rows, Is inches apart
in the rows. Carrots will rot ia The
cellar if in large piles on bins, they
should be spread over large sur
face, or handled over often. Have
not had as good success iii raising
beets as with either turnips or car
rots.
G. ". AngeLL-Raised two years
ago As bushels of orange carrots from
five square rods; MANFRED with sheep
manure; have raised English turnips
and rutabagaS for feeding stock; one
year sowed English turnips in my
cOrnfield when | cultivated my corr
the last time, had a good crop, 10 not
think it exhausted the land very much
think the English turnip not as gooC
to iced to any stock as the rutabaga
think carrots better for mich COW;
and for tattening any stock than turn
Ups, not as good to feed per bushel a,
potatoes. For fattening animal;
would prefer carrots TO potatoes, bush
ell for bushel, think they cost no more
per buShel to raise than potatoes
have not raised or fed beetS.
j. ". CampbeLl-Have raised anl
fed few carrots, have raised only
small piece each year, had at the ratt
Of 1000 to 1900 bushels per acre
sOwcd in rows alternately, II and Is
inches apart, and thinned to 3 to z
inches in the rows; think it better tt
raise carrots than turnipS.
II. Cushman-Have raised t h
French turnips to iced miIch cows
know it adds to the quantity of milk
cannot say as it adds to the flesh OF
the cows. They have not made TIN
milk or butter taste OF the turnips
7 am satisfied turnips are as valuable
? to raise for feeding stock, and farmer
} should raise more turnipS, carrots an,
2 beets in addition to their potatoe
! for feeding stock, but think turnip
less valuable per bushel for teedin,
. than potatoes; have had no success
t with carrots but do not condemn then
2 presume my land was not the righ
/, soil, or not properly prepared: woul
: like to know what kind of soil is bes
/ for them.
: b. R0gerS-Have not raised cal
0 rots, have not succeeded with them
have raised few turnips and rutaba
r gas for feeding for several years All
e think them valuable to feed youn
cattle, sheep and mich cows; thin
5 them as good as potatoes.
: L. N DucEer-Have not raise
e roots for feeding myself-knew a ma
In Chelmsford, Mass, to try the e,
/ pertinent of feeding mich COWS En-.
liSh turnips, rutabagas, beets and ca
d rots. He got more milk when feedin
y fiat English turnips than with eitht
n of the others, and the rutabagas ia
e tened the most. Have fed carrots I
!, horses, but do not think them as goo
e as potatoes.
5 Question by D. Eaton: Will ca
v rots and beets do equally well on ii
{ same land? Answered by several tn;
some years carrots will do well an
y hAats not, other years beets will c
9 well and carrots not on same soil.
u Question by B. Rogers: How Ca
y good onions be raised? Answered /
j. w. Campbell: When you wee
&c your onions remove all the earth fro
f the bulb during its growth except ;
D. it comes In contact with it as it fall
o. to one side. Others had raised GOO
Y onions by frequently pouring hot wa
n er and soap suds on the beds viii
a the onions were small.-Woodstoc
o. Standard.
2 MAPLE SUGAR MANUFACTURE.-Tl
'e sugar season is at hand. Very SOC
D. the farmer and all his family and hi
lie ed help will be hurried and overwor
p ed to the very verge of exhaustio
d sowing the seeds of fever and co
e sumption, gathering sap, boiling al
S, "sugaring off"
Sugar making is profitable. Takir
d one year with another it pays a han
le some profit on the labor and cash i
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