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Show rtom'tUo .twriAin Jtrii('5.J f ' .' ' Titts question 'Ibciog still before the 1 B 4a! meeting,'' I respcctfully'sabinit' my Views, u y. lhave raised this root for" feeding pa. g fS" poses for eight years, and bavoverrc4d my surjilus crop for less thaa. twenty-five . j r M cents a bushel. 1 .consider, it'thobest, 1 .Mi' All tbots for horses, ahd next tolhb Hugfir ' - , 4l beet ns a feed for "milch cows. I fcid t l daily from' four'quarts to.'a iKek; with two ) i Ai quartsof Indian menl, orof oats. wlth 4 " ' . i-Ji'j much cut hay as the horse can eat. Wort?. , iftfl or' les roots are given according to the " 1 m! amount bt work done: The horse keeps ' iu better condition on this f:cd than when - 'j fed exclusively with hay and oats. They Sf give gloss to the skin which I" have , j - 'It never noticed with ony other fvcU that I , , i :-M' haVc ttied. .( . -1 aUo used them for milch: cows until I s - i raised, the. sugar beet, which I find' to . J . j j? yield more .largely than the carrot, and to' . , . ' ? If, iucreaso the itow of milk. Carrots 1m- : ' ?fi prove thb.quallty of milk, bat.do not add I j , iVu so much to its nuafitity as some other roots. , . .ll' They arp excellent for store pigs, and for young cattle, and answer to well for .all jmm, kinds of ,stock, thatl am .extending tha - 1 ':1mf. cultivation of them every year. They aro. , - also growing In favor with iny Bclghbari, . , I'-K' and 1 find tio difficulty' in disposlBg-of all: ' : 'f mi' surplus crop to Iivcry-stuble keepers, . ' and gentlemen who keep horses lWve m&w grown them ot the rate of twelve hundred ; IffiUj bushel . to the acre, and at. a "cbst or. ten ' s cents n bushel. A neighbor .raised four " t , hnudred- busliels;in-his garden, th"e"losti Mi Season, ntt lie rate of over 2000 bushels tat ' ; Jmm tlicacrc.17 ., ' K ' r - " - 'lu.thebiiionrowlng districts of Ithpdq , kgm island: niid'Cbiincctlcut; it Is quite'eori 1- nibit;to raise. ihcms1tf sheccssiou crop;'i ' jfi wiUi;piiton,,;sqw.ing' the currbts- betwctAf, . . .Ip b$Mj ; fn carrots 'nrtf loaded' in sluojis; aiid sold tir. w4spBMsjf tho. swiiorf -towns 'nlbng the - Sound, at,' "M.aB tiliont cfgliteeu l-euts a bushel at whole- - HpJ sale. ' -"- "?5b 1 The value of the root (rprcttj welt cs-. , tnblishedin tlio minds of tnen who have, "IS tried It-ror feeding.- John, Merrill,-of - ''rWM South Lee, Musi, raises them at the rate ' Wfm of '-COO.hushcls to the ocrc, and ata cost t , of four' tents a bushel, exclusive of : tlio i " ? mannrc. He considers IQO bushels " of . VJ oats and 100 bushels of carrots, worth as. i A muchas 200- bushcls.of bati, tb .feed to ' f 'ft leolii IiOrscs. t 4 J. .0. Cnrwcn,, of England, after two , 1 "i yca.rs.cxjicriracut with elghtyfjibrscs used r ou the, farm and in coal "miucscurae. to ". the conclusion that parrots wcrjo Worlh.as"'' inncli, 1'iottml furlpoiiudus bats, and that 1, an.ttcre fn currbts, supplies ns 'much food : for -working horses .as 16 ncKibf pafa. j According to .,1 osiah , Qnipcy?. cxpej- ' ! tucc, at Quiiicy,Ias"s.(chargitigiabof tt i one dollar a day, It t'bits eleven ceuls n" ; f j bushertb raise carrots. - Some other ex-' ' j iierimenters put them sit', niuo vents a r : bushel. This Is upou .tho supposition 1 that tho .hoc js used .iu .weeding. Wjlh g Jm horse cultivation)' tbtjf expense" mlglit bo M -, reduced mora than half. tWitb the re- j - quisito skill, carrots can , bo grown uud ' S put, hi the root, bin, ready for use, at , Mf sevcli "cents a bushel. Tho white' Belglau " ' j last ycdryfclded at 'least 20s per ccnti - AM mbro thati' the Allringhom: 1 consider ?u carrots well 'orth $13 4a too. for . horse, j ?m feed, bud should bo willing, to give that if j JS I ,cbuld not get them cheblicr. At, thb s 1J : satne' time, 1 should tliiiik them' well Isold' 1: ;Mj 'at'$IQ a tbu. They would "pay much', I f't'M belter than grain crops at, that prico. ' V . '"m Cosnecticct, , j ffi |