. Facts for farmers; also for the family circle. A compost of rich materials for all land-owners, about domestic animals and domestic economy; farm buildings; gardens, orchids, and vineyards; and all farm crops, tools, fences, fertilization, draining, and irrigation. a scaf-fold of a few tuns of what is often called English hay, and about a quartermore for clover. The calculation of ten yards is a blunder. If you doubtit, try it. Measure across a mow fifteen feet wide a strip of six feet, andtake off the hay three feet deep and weigh it, and see if it makes a statement, just as soon as
. Facts for farmers; also for the family circle. A compost of rich materials for all land-owners, about domestic animals and domestic economy; farm buildings; gardens, orchids, and vineyards; and all farm crops, tools, fences, fertilization, draining, and irrigation. a scaf-fold of a few tuns of what is often called English hay, and about a quartermore for clover. The calculation of ten yards is a blunder. If you doubtit, try it. Measure across a mow fifteen feet wide a strip of six feet, andtake off the hay three feet deep and weigh it, and see if it makes a statement, just as soon as you begin to analyze it, will appear ridicu-lous. Tlie smallest quantity given for a tun is a cube of seven feet—threehundred and fortj-three feet. As a general rule, it will do to calculateevery cube of eight feet in a large mow as a tun, and unless the hay ispacked solid, it will take more rather tlian less than such a cube to make atun, particularly if the tuns are estimated at gross weight, which we thinkis tlie general custom. With the above estimates, based in most cases upon actual weight andmeasurement, the farmer will have but little difficulty in determining howmuch hay he has stored in any particular place. CHAPTER X. EOOT CROPS AND SUGAH c^-^;^ SKGTION , TUliNIPS, BEETS. CARROTS, PARSNEPS,ONIONS ( HE value of root crops other tlian potatoes lias neverbeen appreciated in this country as much as in Europe;;£_ for instance, turnips in England and beets in ^ Tlie potato, Solanum titberosum, is considered in-^,^^^^ dispensable in Middle and Northern States; andthe sweet potato, Convolvulus hatatas, in Southern a veiy recent period, American farmers havebegun to regard carrots and ruta bagas among the im-portant farm crops. The common white turnip has longbeen grown by most Northern farmers in a small way, butrot as a great field crop, as it is in England. Many fann-ers, who know very well how easily turnips are grown, hav
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