Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-02-26
9wirultural, &r.
By our Agricultural Editor

III out, while the real amount OF nutrition a
forded is comparatively small to all
which arguments there is some force, but n,
nearly as much in this age of machinery an
labor saving implements as formerly.
We do not propose to meet theory wit
theory, but to produce an array of eyidenC
that shall fully establish the profit and pra'
ticability of growing and feeding root croI
on all our stock farms.
Mr.. Benjamin P Ware of Marblehead, Mass
one of the most thoroughly scientific farmer
In the commonwealth. has experimentedve yer
considerably in the way Of raising and feed
ing root crops. 1t may be proper to remar
that the following quotations from Mr.. War
are in the form Of answers to questions put I
him by different members of the Massachusetts
Board of Agriculture, which will account f.
the desultory manner inwhich they are array
ed. He says " My opinion in regard to tn
salue Of the different root crops is, that carrot
are superior to ruta-bagas for the genera
feeding Of stock. prefer that crop to an
other root crop, not only because Of its super
iority in value, but | think it leaves tn
ground in better order for future crops than
almost any other crop we raise 1t seems Il
me it exhausts the land very much less thai
mangold wurzel or ruter-baga crop, and
think | may say than any other crop"
&.
carrots, is that can get, think, larger re
suits, with the same labor and cost. than
from any other root. 1t is not uncommon
with US 70 raise more than thirty tons to the
acre | myself have raised between thirty
FIVE and thirty six tons Of carrots TO the acre
and less than twenty-five tons would be con-
sidered small crop with US, which | think
is larger than you would get from any other
root. Mangold wurzels, no doubt would ex-
coed that but with tunips of any kind
think it would be very difficult to get any
thing like that amount. / raise mangold
wurzels with carrots from the fact that have
found them SO valuable for store hogs. but
the large proportion of roots that ! raise is
carrots"
- have kept successfully, for years, store
hogs and breeding sows from November un-
I'll March, with nothing at all but raw man
gold wurzels. On one occasion l had an old
breeding sow of the Chester County breed.
that was feed with these mangold wurzels
Immediately after taking away the litter Of
pigs, and in March she was really too fat for
breeding purposes. think that fact proves
that raw roots are good for stock of all kinds
and hogs"
" If l am iattening hogs, and want to give
them meal and grain, cook the roots and
mix the meal in, so that it is all cooked and
strained. think foz f.ttening hogs cooked
meal il better than raw After nv hogs
hnvo been accustomed to feeding upon raw
roots, have cooked them without max
ing any addition, and they would prefer the
raw roots to cooked ones"
g We don't Use beets for stock we Use
mangolds and carrots in preference 50
He plants the " horn - carrot in rows IF 4
teen inches apart and the plants one inch apart
in the rows on an average. He says: " If .
~ do not get so much bulk with the horned
carrot as with the orange, We get an equal .
Feight; which We most desire Mangolds
re put in rows twenty-five inches arart and
ultiyate between then with the truckle hoe.
suppose it might De advisable to have thsra
pr engl6A apart to 60 between them wisb
be horse hoe-three feet or little ssore
ge cultivate the Orange globe man eol3 ar d
he red -
DR.. Geo. B. Loring, after showing hat
500 bushels of mangolds could be n i.ed
leaper and easier upon the same gr ound
ian 100 bushels of corn. saws But l50O
lshels of mangolds are worth N ire 10
~ man for his cattle and sheer than
" hundred b4shelsof corn that ey, r grew
Massachusetts there Is no 6ou bit ab1ut
at at all, '' 4 bushel of ta-nips for fifty
is no better food n ne world .
haze tried it over and over agar [ would
ther have it than 4 pint Of corn for each
eep. You can easily figure vi ich would
st the most
- Turnips for growing cattle are as natlr- +
to them as oats to 3 growing horse after he 4
is to be four or i've years Old -
But We have thus far eonsi dersd the man
ID as possessed of no vale except in the
1t, while Prof. johnson says the leaves Dos
- as much or more nutri tive value than the Z
,ts and Prof. Wilson in the Journal of the
yal Agricultural Society Of England SAYS
The leaves of the plants llso appear to pos
s.a far higher value, bo' h as a feeding and {
nuring substance, tina we are accustom-
to assign them in ia It in chemical point
view they are three times as valuable as
roots"
Prof. Johnston, Ia his lectures on Agricul-
al Chemistry, referring to certain data
ich We are compelled to omit says :. In
er words, the piece Of ground which. when :,
n with wheat, VIII maintain one man.
I'D support one and quarter if sown
barley or oats, four with potatoes. and
1t with turn.ps-n so far as the nutri-
po'oer Of taese crops depeads upon He
oh, sugar, and g1gn, they contain ~ q
gain, if we compare the relative quanti-
OF gluten, SC, in the several crops. We
hat wheat, barley, and Indian corn Weld,
the same breadth of land, nearly equal
ltities Of this kind Of nourishment-oats
half more, peas and beans upwards
= potatoes upwards Of thrice, turn "
ards of four times and cabbage sly :; PS
luch as wheat or Indian O iiie'
hever of these two subst- Nn
tarch or the gluten Al'''' neii-
tive property of T. we 'oi ." Il 'ne -
,end it annss. e above ki nds of food
hole the IS that the rurni P is, on
Its most nutritive crop we can
t py no means the most nutritive .
,r weight; but the lurgeness Of the
be-e taken at thirty ons-afords US "
y, the same field a much greater weight of
a than could be rcaped in the form Of any
the other crops above mentioned. T
:. If again, we look to the gluten alone 7
ne of our crops can compete with the cab 81
ge even supposing the crop not to exceed
enty tons an acre"
Rot there are many cases on record where
rty or more tons of eabbages have been
Used on an acre.
The following yields of root crops are tax 7
from the certified and attested statements
councillors for premiums in several OF the
Massachusetts, County Societies MI IL
am Brine of Springfield raised on two acres
nd a half Of land, three thousand one hun /
nd sixtv-six bushels, or ninety-tve tons, OF