Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-03-04

weedy. plant on the same ground as |
would corn. Some years | plant on
moist ground; think turnips will stand
more wet than potatoes. | planted a
piece of moist land one year and there
would be week at time that the hol-
lows would be full of water; the tur-
nips were not as large in the hollows but
potatoes would not have done any thing.
Think they are worth as much as pota-
toes to feed. Mr. Brown called at my
place and | was at the barn feeding 'ba-
gas to my cattle, he came into the barn,
saw what l was doing and asked me if |
did not know that one bushel of pota-
toes was worth four of turnips. | told
him | did not know that it was so. He
said if | would look in my Family Ply
sician'' [ would find an analysis When
we went in, we looked it up and found
they were about equal. What are call
ed turnips are the fiat English variety;
Swedes are rutabagas. Turnips produce
muscle, rutabagas fat. Rutabagas will
not scour cattle like potatoes.
President-I had a yoke of oxen, and
in the Fall they became unruly, and l
told my hired man to put them in the
barn and feed them turnips. After a
while l asked him how many he gave
them and he said he gave them three
bushels day, and that did not satisfy
them. The author of GLOW to Make
the Farm Pay claims that turnips
should be sown the last of June or the
first of July, and that the ground should
be worked deep, especially for carrots,
and the ground should be worked over
number of times in the Spring, which
will destroy many weeds | think on
sandy land turnips have not done we'll
this year, as it has been too dry for any
crop.
I. d. r. Collms.-Good seed is very
important in raising 'bagas.
". Chom6erlin.-I had a piece of
turnips this year, part on dry and part
on moist land The crop on the dry
part was small.
G.. f. Sprogue.-I was at gentle
mans in Troy, think it was secretary s.
he was feeding turnips; they were a
very round, nice looking variety, small
tops, and rather fiat ON top. His mode
of raising them was in his corn. He
raised six acres, six hundred bushels to
the acre. By sowing after the corn was
hoed the last time he saved all wedding
; and hoeing. The turnips were not very
large in size he kept them in his barn
cellar. l think the rutabaga crop the
most profitable, and the easiest titled
l had small piece of turnips in my
garden from which [ harvested forty
bushels, of which I made an estimate
and found it would be at the rate Of
thirty-two hundred bushels per acre.
1. d. r. CoUinS-I was reading IL
the New England Farmer of man who
t raised fifteen hundred bushels to the
acre. The editor asked how he fed anc
lodged so many turnips on an acre, bu
; there was no answer made to the ques
l ton. Perhaps some other kind of roots
S would do well where rutabagas do mo-
: succeed. | have tried two or three va
rieties of Wurtzels; they do not do wei
|
roots and it took my hired man and my
self three-fourths of a day to harves
sixteen bushels. We could have gath
cred fifty bushels of 'bagas in the same
: time The ground on which they grew
: l think would have produced one hun
bred bushels of 'bagas. Think they
were not sown early enough. That il
one advantage of raising 'bagas, they d.
not have to be sowed early when othel
crops need our attention. [ think :
bushel of carrots contains more nutri
ment than bushel of turnips, but i
r costs as much again to raise them, ant
: the soil needs deeper cultivation.
S. Il. Smith, think the Shor
Horn carrot will not require any deepe
e soil than turnips, and can pull them a
= easy. Have the rows foot apart an,
: the carrots can be very thick in the rows
d l should raise them in preference to tn
long carrot.
d J. Merr9H-I think the long orang
}, carrot more profitable to raise than tn
0 Short Horn.
e A. Morse-I think there is a differ
S ence in carrot and turnip seed. We G
to the store and get seed that we kno1
l nothing about nor any one else, and tn
1 consequence is, we get a sprangly, poo
:, lot of roots. l think if any number Q
r the Club has good kind he ought t
4 raise seed and put it in the store so tina
r we all can get it. How will an acre Q
1 turnips compare with an acre of oats
: 1t takes about the same quantity of ma
| nure and will take about the same tim
to SOW it, and about the same time t
: weed it as it takes to harrow in the oats
S and what is the result? We get abou
t fifty bushels of oats and about six hun
: dred bushels of turnips. | think bush
Ell of turnips as good to feed as bushe
o of oats or potatoes. The turnip tops ar
e worth as much as the straw. I woul
S like to hear the opinion of the Club i
h regard to the value of all crops compare
k with turnips.
It President.-I have always thought
h could raise an acre of potatoes cheape
e than could an acre of turnips; hav
|. fed my horse four quarts of potatoes an
S two of oats day, and he has done be-
; ter than on grain only.
s G. F. Sprague.-Dr Dryden said W
o ought to feed carrots with grain to hor.
k es.
IS l. d. r. CoAins.-I think there
n one thing farmers ought to do, and thu
d is, raise more roots to feed in the winte
); when the stock is on dry fodder. Ii
l. each find out what he can raise best an
70 raise them.
n II. Cass.-I can raise four bushels
Re turnips as easy as one of potatoes.
a b. Webber.-I have not had vel
IS good luck with turnips can raise a busl
it ell of potatoes on less ground than | ca