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ing the farmer from starvation, root crop farming, especially 

 sugar beets, means high farming, requires the most brain, a 

 ofood deal of care and attention, and a good deal of work; it 

 will give, if all these are properly applied, the largest cash 

 returns, and will bring the farm into the highest state of 

 productiveness for every crop the farmer may afterwards 

 wish to raise. 



We have proved by our experiment this year, that large 

 crops of beets can be raised in every part of the State of 

 Maine, because what many can do, all can do, if they will 

 only profit by the experience of their neighbors ; we have 

 proved that the beets produced in an}^ part of the State of 

 Maine yield as much sugar as the beets raised in any part of 

 the world ; and we have proved that the sugar from beets 

 raised in Maine can be as easily extracted, and is of as good 

 quality as the best in any country. 



Without root crops no production of manure, to any great 

 extent, is possible. Sugar beets will bring cash and plenty 

 of feed, consequently plenty of manure, without which farmers 

 will always have hard work, while plenty of manure will 

 restore lost fertility to our worn out lands, and eventually 

 make farming easy, and above all, remunerative. 



