The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-22
CONCLUDED from Eirst Pace.


of calculation, and as representing the
kind of cultivation which is employed, we
may concede that an acre of land will yield
the following crops Hay, 2 tons Swed-
ish turnips, IL tons mangold wurzel, 20
tons carrots, 25 tons Indian corn, 70
bushels.
The practical value as obtained by expe-
riments in feeding are Hay, 106 pounds
are equivalent to 300 pounds Of Swedish
turnips, 400 pounds Of mangold wurzel,
$50 pounds of carrots, and 30 pounds of In
dian corn. 1rna -etrs wf .f.Es
Dividing the number of pounds Of each
of these crops on an acre, according to the
estimates above by the number of pounds
representing the practical value of each
for food, and we have as results figures
which will express the comparative yield
of each acre, according to the crop occupy
ing it. For instance
Hay, per acre, 1000 pounds divided by
100 equals 40; Swedish turnips, per acre,
$4,000 pounds, divided by 300 equals 1870
mangold wurzel, per acre, AZ, 900 pounds,
divided by 400 equals 100; carrots, per
acre, 90, 900 pounds divided by 250 equals
200 corn, per acre, 1850 pounds, divided
by 80 equals S7t
According to this table, an acre will yield
three times as much food in turnips as in
hay two and one-half times as much food
in mangolds as in hay five times as much
10 carrots as In hay, and about two and
one-ffth times as much in corn as in hay.
Now, in order to arrive at the cost of
feeding the above articles to cattle, and at
the comparative value of each as an article
of food, we must be able to ascertain the
prices which they bear IN different locali-
ties, the advantages Of the market; the
cost of labor, and the kind and value of
the cattle which are fed. have furnished
the figures for the benefit of those who de-
sire to ascertain, if possible, the most econ
omical and useful crops for cattle husban-
dry There is no doubt that valuable as
hay is, as an article of food, and universal
rs is its use here, there are crops which
form an useful ally to 1t in the business of
carrying cattle through the winter. The
question is, which of these crops is the
best for such a purpose--the most econo-
mical and profitable? There are sections
where the corn crop will not ripen, and
where the cultivation Of roots would do
much toward enabling the farmer to sup
port all the cattle in winter which his pas
lures will bear in summer-a state of things
which does not now exist. In some re-.
gions the hay crop is large, hay is cheap
and labor scarce. The farmer there must
Judge for himself how far it will pay to de-
vote himself to any other than the hay
crop. Circumstances vary as localities
vary. and it is they alone which can guide
the intelligent farmer in the management
of his land for his cattle, and can enable
him to judge of the cost OF feeding them,
as well as to decide upon the breed best
adapted to his purpose.
If / have elaborated my remarks more
than is deemed n cessary to this club,
can only ask to be excused on the ground
that want of intimate knowledge has rem
dered il necessary for me to expand and
dilate where the practical farmer here might
condense to better purpose.
tn school-master had done well, they all
saia.W Some of the gentlemen present
thought he might perhaps have said less
had he known more and they hardly felt
the necessity of discussing steaming and
soiling, inasmuch as none of them intended
TO adopt either. But they had learned
that such discussions were customary with
all clubs, and they were determined that
theirs should not be outdone by any others
in the difficult work in which their minds
were engaged The sweeping sentences
of the lecturer had had one-effect at least
they had borne the club back to its origi-
nal amiability and repose and accepting
the figures on corn and turnips, and believ-
ing in the estimates of the comparative
value Of different crops as food for cattle,
they entered into a good-natured general
conversation, IN which William Jones re-
marked, without the slightest idea of being
personal, that he did not see how it was
that man who felt himself to be unable
TO discuss other question unless he was well
Informed, felt entirely competent 10 dis
cuss farming whether he knew any
thing about it or not.
''But then, the school-mastcr is a nice
fellow, said Mr.. Howe, after they dlsper sed,
''and Mrs. Howe says he has written one
little poem almost as good as Emerson's
Humblc.bee." Enviable Charles ingalls,