The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-08-17

Total. ..............s....... .tl3o w
| Or. by lsOo bushels OF mingold.
"The cost of these roots, nine and half
cents bushel, is certainly not extravaganza
considering their value as food and their
usual market price. They usually sell for
81 (now more generally $15), of sixty
! pounds to the bushel, or about thirty-four
| bushels to the ton; and at this rate bring
twenty cents and a fraction per bushel.
According to analysis and experiment,
| lent to 100 pounds of English hay. AT
sixty pounds to the bushel the crop eigh-
ed 10000 pounds, or forty-eight tons
| equivalent to twelve tons of hay, taking
the estimate that four tons of mangolds are
equal TO one ton of hay. For the produc-
ton of milk, have no doubt that the
forty-eight tons of m,ngolds are worth
more than thirteen tons of hay"
"Do you SOW by hand in drills, now p
asked Mr.. Hopkins.
| "No, | do not" replied Mr.. johnson.
81 SOW with machine and on a flat sur
face but cannot get 80 large crop. and
the work of thinning is much greater"
| 81 will now read my statement of the
| Swedish turnip, or ruta baga crop, which
made, the same year" said Mr.. johnson.
Rutd Bagas i enter also crop of ruta
bagas, raised on two and a half acres OF
land.
The land was an elevated knoll, rising
out of a bed Of clay, and bounded on one
side by a salt marsh. The top of the knoll
IS somewhat gravely and light, but, as il
inclincs towards the low land surrounding
it, is warm loan.
The piece has been in grass for many
years, and yielded last year poor CROP
less than half ton of hay to the acre. II
was poughed, June Goth, with Michigan
plough, and manure at the rate of fifteer
ox-cart loads TO the acre was spread upon
it, and narrowed in 1t was then narrowed
again with light harrow, and the loose
sods were turned over with the hoe. Lines
were drawn with a marking rake, contain
ing three long, heavy teeth, twenty inches
apart, drawn by one man and held by
another. In the small burrows thus made
Il small quantity of super phosphate was
sprinkled. The seed was then sown IL
these burrows with a sower. The see,
used was Skirvings King of the Swedes
The planting was finished in June.
The land was hoed twice, and the plants
were thinned out, leaving spaces of siA
inches in the rows. The crop was har
vested by four men and two teams, in foul
and half days. The amount OF the croT
is one thousand eight hnndled and seventy
six bushels and at sixty pounds to thu
bushel; and account is as follows:
TO twelve days ploughing. ............... 3l2 o
To three days seeding. .:.....:.........
TO twenty.four days hocing and thinning 20 U
To ten cords OF barn-y ard manure and
| naullne. ...................;.. 90 "
TO 1000 pounds OF phosphate ...... 20 o.
| Total ........................ .$l36 q
CIR by 1876 bushels of roots.
The market price of ruta bagas varie
materially in different seasons. Last au.
tumn, they cold for fifty cents per barrel
Last spring and this autumn, they sold TO
one dollar per barrel. At these prices il
is easy to caluate the cash value of tn
above crop.
AS food for cattle ruta-bagas bear thu
relation to English hay which three hun
dred bears to one hundred. AT sixt!
pounds to the bushcl the crop weighed ON
hundred and twelve thousand five hundred
and sixty pounds, or flfty-six and one-thir,
tons, equivalent to eighteen seven-rinth
tons of hay, taking the estimate that thre
tons of ruta bagas are equivalent to one tot
of hay.
There is no doubt that ruta- bagas, Of
Swedish turnips, are easily cultivated or
light warm land; and am satisfied from
experience that they are the most usefu
root the farmer can raise for store and fat
tening cattle.
"Full of water, amt they?' said San
Barker. ''Nnety per cent water. Who
wants to haul this ronnd."
"a man, or a turnip, or forked rad
ish, is ninety per cent water. You are
Sam. So is most of the food we eat. Blu
water in certain combinations nourishes
And l think Swedish turnip is one oil
them," said Mr.. Thomas.
A conversational debate on these two
roots followed, until "the clock tolled tn
hour tor retiring" and the club dispersed
The school-master has been cheerful,
silent. DIR. Parker was not present. TIN
subject was not exhausted.