Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-09
New Feed for Stock.

Iu0 English IdTIu0E RAISES uldu2OlOS
for cattle and turnips for sheep, where
as the American farmer raises neither
only in a very limited sense, 1t is I'M
,derstood in all lands that roots are
healthy food, which should be a sutfi-
cient inducement to raise them. The
English farmer, from sheer necessity of
making the most off from the land he
t. lis, learned the lesson of economy
that root feeding taught him. He
found that ten tons of roots were worth
more TO him in the health and growth
of his stock than hay or grain that
could be raised on the same ground.
and he practically applied the lesson.
Now mango,ds and turnips are not
equal in value as food to carrots and
sugar beets. VI by, then, does he not
raise these instead? We suppose be-
cause mangolds and turnips yield more
to- the ac4e and with less work, and
then the turnips are eaten by the sheep
in the field without pulling at all.
Movable fences are used to finclose the
ground according to the number of
sheep and they are kept there till the
turnips are consumed without much
attention. This ground grows enor-
nous amounts of mangolds to the acre
"a cheap and abundant supply from
Ittie,land. As our country grows old
er, land higher and economy more ur-
gent, we shall follow in their footsteps,
but we expect our roots will be IN ore
carrots than sugar beets, because there
is considerable more nutriment in them
than in the other, and besides, we
shall have to keep them from freezing.
But If it be more profitable to feed
- rb,r- n
nowP Roots are raised to some extent
where land is worth 800 or more
per acre, but it is far more gen.
cal, even there. 1t takes labor
to raise roots, and so 1t does everything
else grown on the farm, But the West,
-ern farmers laugh at,us when we talk of
raising roots for stock. The truth is.
his land isyet comparatively cheap and
100 to go acres They haye plenty of
pasture. have icorn and oats. What
need have they of fussing among the
weeds to clean out acres of roots, SO
.that.'a ble1erop may be OBJ
tanned? They ds6m it of vastly more
consequence tofevote their time and
energies to thef RAISING of wheat, corn
and oats, and long as land Is not
s.oAen Aioio pu |oo per dcEe tHty Will
not condesceI d to stoop to pull up
weeds from 3bout tiny carrot roots :
not thsxsxzhey have not yet learned
the value money in that way. plen-
ty OF haVand grain-what more do
they -need. But Western farmers are
sadly deficient in matters of economy.
as any one may see by the great num-
Der of agricultural tools turned up
against the fence to winter This is a
fast end of farming in the West which
would cause an Eastern man to wonder
how they live at all and come out with
a c, can .balance-sheet at the end of the
year But time and experience are the
great healing ointments for these IN
slightly sores. They will heal in time.
and q more rational economy Will
supervene. new methods be introduced
aud thousands saved which are now an
nually lost Roots should come into
more general use, because they promote
the health of most animals A less
area is required to feed q given num-
Der of animals, which Is SO much
gained for other crops, and the sur
plus grain raised is q clear gain from
raising the roots. Then we believe
young stock will gain more pounds of
bone and muscle than if fed in the us
ual manner. because, being healthy.
Their 'appetites are kept good. Fhe
roots answer another good purpose,
that o. stutfing Practical Farmer.