Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-03-10
The Rest Root CrOn.

M. w. Gum, of La Sale county, ILL.,,
writes as follows to the Prairie Farmer /:
l have been an interested reader of
your late articles on "Root Crops for
Cattle I raised $50 bushels of mangel
wurzels on 20 rods of ground, the past
season. | had many beets that weighed
as high as so pounds. But after having
fed part of them, l begin to think that
the Blood Turnip is, after all, the best
beet for stock. | think there would be
no difficulty in raising one thousand
bushels of Blood Turnip Beets per acre,
and fancy they would contain as much
nourishment as twice that amount of
mangel wurzels, with half the handling.
Of course, the land must be we'll ma
nured to produce such crops; but it will
not pay to raise root crops for stock
without manure. To grow beets, car
rots, ETC., | would turn over well ma
nured meadow in August; then plough
and thoroughly prepare the land the
next June, and SOW in drills 20 inches
apart, and thin the plants to inches
apart in the row. In this way believe
we can raise the largest amount of roots
per acre, with least amount of wedding.
But would like very much to have
the opinion of those who have had the
experience Of more than one season.
How TO FArrEN HoRsEs.- Many good
horses devour large quantities OF grain
and hay, and still continue thin and
poor-the food eaten is not properly
assimilated. If the usual feed has been
unground grain and hay, nothing but a
change will effect any desirable altera-
ton in the appearance Of the animal.
In case oil meal cannot be obtained
readily, mingle bushel offaxseed with
a bushel of barley, one Of oats, and
another of Indian corn, and let it be
ground into fine meal. This will be a
fair portion for all his feed. Or the meal
of the barley, oats, and corn in equal
quantities, may first be procured, and
one-fourth part of oil cake mingled up
with it when the meal is sprinkled on
cut feed. Feed two or three quarts of the
mixture two or three times daily, min
gled with peck of cut hay and straw.
If the horse will eat greedily, let the
quantity be gradually increased, until
he will eat four or six quarts at every
feeding, three times Gay. But avoid
the practice of allowing the horse to
stand at a rack we'll filled with hay. In
order to fatten horse that has run
down in flesh the groom should be very
particular to feed the animal no more
than he will eat up clean, and then lick
his manger for more.
PIsC Agassiz is now
engaged In preparing an illustrated
work on the American Salmoni@d, y
including all the trout, salmon and
whiteish of North America. To aid
him in his labors, he desires specimens
of any fish of the salmon family, includ-
ing the common trout, from any locall-
ty, with label attached, mentioning the
name of the place where caught. Even
a single specimen would be acceptable.
Prof. Agassiz desires the opportunity to
study a large number of specimens OF
each species in every stage of growth,
so as to afford chance of examining all
the variations of age, sex and season.
The American Fish Culturists' Associa-
ton, of New York, has just issued a cir
cular approving of Prof. Agassiz's plans,
and asking its members and others to
send specimens of winnmish, land
locked salmon, and the rarer kinds of
lake trout.
REMOVAL OF LACQUER, OR LEATHER,
FROM TIMED IRoN.-According to DIR.
Emsman, the adhesion to the lacquering
upon the articles of timed iron, or ordi-
nary tin, may be destroyed in a very
short time by making cut through the
substance OF the coating, and applying
a small quantity of mercury. This is