Show storing and leeding feeding turnips I 1 A corres correspondent corresponded t of 0 the gennesee farmer whitin writing from ancaster C W says pys there is no small amount of difficulty in storing turnips safely A little too much heat beat and they are lost four years ago I 1 had bad one hundred and thirty bushels in a long iong 0 pit sunk eig elg eighteen lateen inches deep the man who covered them was told to put on tern teri inches thick of earth instead oe of which he put on eighteen inches binche a ventilating hole was left at the top the snow fell deep and added to the warmth and the whole decays my root house is built in a side hill bill it is walled up tip with pine logs poles are laid across from plate to plate and it is filled in tightly with straw between them and the boarded boac ded roof the theearta earth is banked up the roof abolt abbit two feet above the eaves the front fiant where the entrance is of course ou out t of the ground and I 1 is double that is there 18 is i a space of five feet between the wall and a tight board partition isi Ivi within thin this root house was filled to the roof and it heli hell eight hundred bushels fearing t they would heat hrat the inner door was left open when a sudden and unexpected fall fail of the temperature pera ture took place on the of november goinges going as low as 40 4 below zero the turnips at the exposed end of the building froze partially but were quite good for use the main bulk kept well and were sweet and fresh in the spring v and some lasted till june the root house is so constructed that at the end level with the top of the bank there is a trap door into which the turnips are thrown from a tilt cart to sq that teat the rolls refis ls no iio handling in the unload unloading ing th the e turnips s should be trimmed of roo roc roots t a as well as the tho tops as the they y are moro more liable to heat if stored with the roots on olt Account of the earth which then adheres to tai them 1 I log iks some bushels and had I 1 not discovered the mischief in time I 1 should have lost more one season from froin this cause my root house was constructed in haste of materials which were on the spot oth otherwise erwis e I 1 should prefer one of stone with a roof of stout poles and earth wei well wel adin feeding n lon on this head I 1 might content myself with saying that all the animals I 1 have live in part upon them but it ii may perhaps be useful to go go more inore into detail at 11 my horses for tor three winters past have had very little towards spring each has haa two large turnips whole but clean night and mornin morning unless doing heavy heavry work wan they ha veti vell of oats in the instead of the tui tul turnips nips they are very fat and full fuir of life ilfe od my calves and lambs get turnips sliced with w ith a machine twice aday a day about half a gallon I 1 on to each and some hay flay my INI sheep get them in the saing same bame way once a ny day last evin ivin winter with pea or oat straw only until march when I 1 be began bean an to give them hay ad the young stock one or two years old get turnips once a day sliced as above and straw until near spring when they get ba hay y and they are in good growing condition many farmers would say fat ail all through b h the season I 1 have raised mangel for my cows cow asche astae turnips give the butter a strong flavor especially during tb tae e first half balf of the winter after which I 1 have found them less objectionable on this account A bushel a day between three cows has been my allowance I 1 if you want good beef shut up a lean ox give eim him three bushel aday saday of turnips a and a little hay or cut oat straw for ten ak weeks g ani then for the last foit foft fortnight night of his lif life e a gallon of barley or corn meal aday sp over his turnips and if there is any airy disposition about him to fatten fatton you will get gt as tender and juicy meat as ciny any ang ani one tan can desire I 1 planting potatoes in the fall mr E p 0 0 bundy of oxford chenango Clie Che cou county rity N Y writes yr ites to the genesee faymer farmer that be ile plants his potatoes in the fall obtains earlier and better flavored potatoes poti toes than when planted in in the spring llis ilia method of planting is as follows select a piece of dry ground prepare it as for spring planting any time in the fall falt when ground is in good order taking care to plant the potatoes a little deeper than in the sa s1 spring ring planting plant irig throw a shovel full of coarse manure upon or still better into each hill or better still corer cover corer the surface w with i th a coat of straw where mice are not too plenty the straw helps helpa to protect scarcely needs hoeing or plowing mr bir B says he has raised potatoes in this way for several years past and they are invariably free from the rot and at least east two weeks earlier and two or three sizes larger than the cpr spring ing planting to protect a shingle root roof from nire fire says say the editor of the albany knickerbocker A wash composed of ilme lime limpp salt and fine sand or wood ash ashes s put on in the oi binary way of whitewashing renders the roof fifty fold more safe alpain allain against st taking fire from falling cinders I 1 or othe otherwise fwise in cases of fire in the vicinity it pays the expense a hundred fold in its preserving influence against the effect of the I 1 weather the older and more weather beaten I 1 the shingles shingles the more benefit derived such stich I 1 rally raily become more or less warped roua rough 1 and cracked the application of the wash by wetting the upper surface restores them at once to their original or first form thereby closing the space between the shing shingles leg and the lime and sandby filling up all the cracks and pores in the shingle itself prevent it from warping for bears iano if not cpr for evar |