The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-01-30
New Feed for Stock.

The English farmer raises manoolds
for cattle and turnips for sheep, where,
as the American farmer raises neither
only in . very Limited sense. 1t is un-
dersiOod in all lands that roots are
healthy food, which should be . suii-
cent inducement to raise them. The
English farmer, from sheer necessity OF
making the most off from the land he
ills. learned the lesson of economy
that root feeding taught him. He
found that ten tons of roots were worth
more 10 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 rs food to carrots and
sugar beets. Why, then, does he not
raise these instead? We suppose be-
cause mangolds and turnips yield more
to the ac and with less work, and
then the turnips are eaten by the sheep
in the field without pulling at ali.
Movable fences are used to inclose the
ground according to the number of
sheep and they are kept there TIL the
turn ps are consumed without much
attention. This ground grows enor-
nous amounts of mangolds to the aero
"A cheap and abundant supply from
little land As our country grows o d.
er, land higher and economy more VI
gent, we shall follow in their footsteps,
but we expect our roots will be ore
carrots than sugar beets, because there
is cons .derable more nutr.ment in them
than in the other, and besides. we
shall have to keep them from freezing.
But if it be more profitable to feed
roots. why do not farmers raise more
now? Roots are raised to some extent
where land is worth 500 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 is yet comparatively cheap and
the great mass OF farmers own from
100 TO $40 acres. They have plenty of
pasture, have corn and oats. What
need have they of fussing among the
weeds to clean out acres of roots, SO
that n respectable crop may be OBJ
tanned? They deem it of vastly more
energies to the raising of wheat, corn
and OTIS, aud as long rs land Is not
worth more than 500 per acre they will
not condescend to stoop to pull up
weeds from about tiny carrot roots
not they They have not yet learned
the value of money in that way. plen-
ty of hay and grain-what more do
they need. But Western farmers are
sadly deficient in matters of economy.
rs any one may see by the great num-
Der of agricultural tools turned up
against the fence to winter. This is q
fast end of farming in the West which
would cause an Eastern man to wonder
how they live at all and conc out with
. clean balance-sheet at the end of the
year. But time and experience are the
great healing ointments for these un-
slightly sores. They viii heal in time.
superyene. 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 . given num-
Der Of animals, which Is 90 much
gained for other crops. and the sur
plus grain raised - . clear gain from
raising the roots. Then We believe
young stock viii gain more pounds Of
bone and muscle than If fed in the ua-
nal manner. because. being healthy.
her appetites are kept good. The
roots answer another good purposG.
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