. Cattle and their diseases. Cattle. CULTURE OF GRASSES FOR FODDER. 139 The cost of cultivation in this mode, it must be evident, is but trifling, compared with the slower method of hand-plant- ing. It requires a skillful ploughman, a quick, active lad, and a good yoke of oxen, and the extent of the work will depend somewhat upon the state of the turf. The nutritive equivalent for potatoes in a hundred pounds of good hay is 319 pounds ; that is, it will take pounds of potatoes to afford the same amount of nourishment as one pound of hay. The great value of roots is as a change or condimen
. Cattle and their diseases. Cattle. CULTURE OF GRASSES FOR FODDER. 139 The cost of cultivation in this mode, it must be evident, is but trifling, compared with the slower method of hand-plant- ing. It requires a skillful ploughman, a quick, active lad, and a good yoke of oxen, and the extent of the work will depend somewhat upon the state of the turf. The nutritive equivalent for potatoes in a hundred pounds of good hay is 319 pounds ; that is, it will take pounds of potatoes to afford the same amount of nourishment as one pound of hay. The great value of roots is as a change or condiment calcu- lated to keep the animal in a healthy condition. The Carrot is somewhat extensively fed, and is a valuable root for milch cows. This, like the potato, has been culti- vated and im- proved from a wild plant. Carrots require a deep, warm, mellow soil, thoroughly cul- tivated, but clean, and free from weed-seed. The difference between a very good profit and a loss on the crop depends much upon the use of land and manures perfectly free from foul seeds of any kind. Ashes, guano, seaweed, ground bones, and other similar substances, or thoroughly-rotted and fermented compost, will answer the purpose. After plowing deep, and harrowing carefully, the seed should be planted with a seed-sower, in drills about eighteen inches apart, at the rate of four pounds to the acre, about the. A WEST HIGHLAND Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jennings, Robert, 1824-1893. Philadelphia, J. E. Potter;
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