Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-12-25
FARM AND F.RESIDE.

A FARMER, AND SOMETHING ELSE
No man can serve two masters" There
is no truer axiom than this when applied
to the business pursuits Of life. No man
can pursue probably two kinds OF busl-
ness and make both an equal success, or be
successful with both. II Il man has
farm, that is business enough if he has a
love of the pursuit. If he has not liking
for it, and cannot give his whole mind and
energies to it, lie ought to take some pro-
fession or pursuit which suits him better.
Lord Palmerston said, Our new gardener
,loes pretty well, and understands the
theory of his department, but he is
preacher and goes preaching about the
country every Sunday, and fear he thinks
100 much Of his sermons TO be very sue
:assful in his garden.''
Now this is the case with numberless
farmers, as we'll as with men of other call
.ngs. They get hold of some hobby, and
h v get all absorbed with it and lose sight
entirely of the main business of their lives.
they neglect great interests for the sake
# some light, attractive employment,
" iiCl ~ UGSU ID tpllcillcltlA' AL iva cilS
;nuntry We find men who are partly farm
rs and partly implement agents, or stock
uYng agents, or perhaps Bible Or other
'ok agents, and always, when we ind
uch men, we find that they are not good
armers, nor are they tirst-ciass agents.
rne farm is left to the hired help, or the
inexperienced oversight of the buys, and
hen there are ii great many small leaks
md losses, which, though see miDgly insig-
ticant in Themselves, yet reduce the am
lual profits largely, and more and more
very year.
y man cannot be tip-top farmer and
vet he something else, too; it is cut ofeth6
Ilestiun. 1t las been tried too oftelsjand
Jne result is al vays the same. The farm
runs down, tue returns grow less and less,
Ind at last mortgage sweeps everything.
NUTRTTIvE PROPERTIES OF THE CAR
ROT AND PARSNIP.-In the Channel
Isl n,ls, where parsnips are highly esteemed
Is foo for mich COWS and fattening cat
lie, they are considered superior To the
carrot i'll nutrtlve properties, and both are
laid to he superior to Swedish turnips.
E.le Red Antringham carrot is known to
DE much more nutritious than the White
Belgian.
In the journal of the Royal Agricultural
society of England, Vol. XII, page 395,
DR.. Voplcker compares the white or Bel
sian carrot and parsnip, and says that
there is a general resemblance in the COM
position Of both roots, but parsnips contain
less sugar than carrots, the deficiency be-
ing supplied by starch. Carrots contain
TN average of IL per cent. Of solid sub
stancee, parsnips Is per cent. The flesh
forming constituent of parsnips is greater
than that of carrots. Fresh parsnips con-
tain $50 per cent. and dry 7.25 per cent. of
flesh forming constituents. Flesh carrots
d.l2 per cent. and dry $40 per cent. of then
same.
Pirsnips contain more nitrogen than
carrots, i'll the form OF ammoniacal salts,
and they also contain double portion of
fatty matter. The difference III the sela-
tive proportion of cellular fibre in both
ROOFS is very great, and the cellular fibre is
very useful i'll the animal economy, being
converted by the gastric juice into gum
aud sugar, and applied in feeding the res
piration and in the production of fat. Par
suips are more valuable thar carrots for
feeding milch COWS and also for fattening
animals. They stand frost better than any
other root crop.