INFORMATION WANTED.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ZEALAND AGRICULTURIST. Sir, —In your next issue will you kindly inform me if carrots for pig-feeding are equally nutritious or fattening with sugar or kinds of beet? And further, what is the proper mode and when is the proper time to pit turnips to ensure their keeping sound ? I am, &c., A Would-be Amateur Parmer. [We do not consider carrots,to be of equal value for feeding pigs or any other kind of stock as the sugar beet or other varieties of beet. It has been found by analysis that carrots contain 98 parts pf nutritive matter in 1000, andthatsugarbeet contains 146in1000 —
such nutritive matter being composed chiefly of saccharine matter, gluten, and starch-. An experiment to determine for yourself their comparative fattening properties would be interesting, and desirable. It must be borne in mind that neither carrots, beet, nor any kind of root or tuber will properly fatten pigs by themselves ; a mixture of more c.oncentratecMof'd, such as barley, bean or peameal is necessary to make the pork fil m and good.—ln this climate, , unless at high- altitudes, there is not much danger of turnips -being seriously injured by frost if left on the fields to be taken up as required for the use of cattle, &c. If it is required to remove a crop of turnips at one time to get the land ready for another crop, the best plan of storage is to place them in triangular heaps,, with au eight or ten feet base to a height of four feet, and cover with a good coating of straw, taking care to have the covering secure from the wind. We should think the proper time to pit turnips in the mode suggested would bo about June for the Aberdeen yellow or other hybrid sorts, and for the Swede about August. In the one case they would keep well to September and in the other to October, or even later. It is a mistake to take crops of turnips or mangel up too early, as during the month they continue to grow and increase in weight.— ED. N.Z.A.]
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1033, 12 August 1879, Page 2 (Supplement)
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357INFORMATION WANTED. Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1033, 12 August 1879, Page 2 (Supplement)
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