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Show the roots they are the most relished by our domestic animals. The parsnip par-snip contains more nutriment than the turnip, and cannot be surpassed for butter cows. It will produce June butter all winter. Both will flourish in a deep, rich, warm loam, providing no coarse manure is applied. ap-plied. All roots require a soil of lino texture. Putting the manure or fertilizer in the drills has many advocates, but we believe the practice prac-tice to be a bad one. It will stimulate stim-ulate the growth and will often produce pro-duce largo yields in proportion to tho quantity of manure used, but the qualities and keeping properties of the roots are thereby impared, and tho land will not be in such a good or rich condition for the succeeding suc-ceeding crop. The finer the manure and the more thoroughly it is mixd with the soil the better. It is a great mistake to apply all the rotation rota-tion to the root crop, as many farmers do. Ridging is a good plan in a wet season and when the crop is deep-rootd, deep-rootd, as cultivation is thereby facilitated; fa-cilitated; but shallow rooted crops will suffer in a dry season for want of moisture, and they should therefore there-fore be cultviated as flat as possible. Xtfvieiixas Roots. W Ml - HI It has been said that farmers should feed their fattening stock for their manure, not for the beef or the cash. Perhaps the same principle will apply to root growing; it is not the roots that are wanted so much as the cleaning, preparing and enriching en-riching the soil for future crops especially wheat. Boots in England Eng-land are the corn of the United States, but our climate is more general gen-eral purpose, and we can raise a great variety of crops with more than average success. Boots give quality and healthfulness to beef and dairy products, and one of the most effectual means of building up a herd of butter cows is by the extensive ex-tensive use of carrots and parsnips. Per nutritive value, the cost of production pro-duction is much less than that of corn. A great deal has been said about the varieties of soil adapted to the different kinds of roota, leaving leav-ing farmers to suppose that this is a matter of primary significance; but the modes of preparation, manuring, the methods of cultivation cultiva-tion and the system of rotation are of much greater importance. By studying the feeding habits of roots very few mistakes can be made, remembering re-membering always that some varieties vari-eties of the same root are deeper rooted than others, and therefore feed more differently. Weight for weight, mangels have the highest nutritive value among roots, and the soil best adapted to their growth is a deep, loose, friable loam. Deep cultivation is necessary, especially for the deep rooted varieties. Mangels have the property of feeding feed-ing readily upon all the elements of plant food, and therefore a general manure is best adapted to their growth, providing the soil is equally balanced in all the constituents of plant food. Turnips, on the other hand being shallower rocted, cannot can-not get down to the phosphates in tho subsoil, and have littlo power to absorb the portion which they can reach. A dressing with superphosphates su-perphosphates or bone dust has therefore been found beneficial to turnips, and will save immense quantities of farmyard manure, providing pro-viding there is a good supply of vegetable veg-etable matter in the soil. Turnips take nitrogen very greedily, so that when nitrogenous manures, such as nitrate of soda or sulphate of ammonia, am-monia, aro applied in large' quantities quanti-ties tho turnips run too much to leaf , just the same as when tho soil contains con-tains an excess of vegetable matter. Carrots and parsnips require about the same treatment. Of all |