. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 114 Bulletin 243. However, they are useful for early feeding, and are especially valuable for sheep. Carrots and parsnips, while yielding a fair percentage of dry matter, do not yield a sufficient quantity of food material to warrant general planting for stock-feeding. However, they are exceptionally good as a condimental food, and for horses. The results of 1904 and 1905 show plainly that early planting of all roots for s
. Annual report of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 114 Bulletin 243. However, they are useful for early feeding, and are especially valuable for sheep. Carrots and parsnips, while yielding a fair percentage of dry matter, do not yield a sufficient quantity of food material to warrant general planting for stock-feeding. However, they are exceptionally good as a condimental food, and for horses. The results of 1904 and 1905 show plainly that early planting of all roots for stock-feeding is desirable. Rutabagas, however, may be planted a little later than the others. It has not been shown that the more fib- rous and heavier ruta- bagas of a longer-grow- ing season are less digest- ible or palatable than the more succulent roots of the shorter-growing sea- son. HARVESTING AND STORING ROOTS. Roots are generally harvested by hand, except in the case of the sugar- beets, when a plow may be used to raise them from the ground. When turnips, rutabagas and mangels are grown for succession-feeding, the turnips are generally harvested first, before frost. Slight frosts in the late fall will not injure rutabagas or mangels, although the first frost should be a sign of harvesting time unless it be exceptionally early and very sure to be followed by later warm weather. In late summer and early fall, the tops do not grow much, yet the roots are developing and ripening rapidly. In the case of mangels, rutabagas and most turnips the plants can be pulled by hand, the tops twisted off as they are pulled and th^ XQQt,s piled. Fig. 31.—Carton's Monarch rutabaga. Upper row early sown; lower row late sown. The roots are generally imiforni in size and shape and are solid. They are somewhat affected by clubroot Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance
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