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beets in connection with unmarketable potatoes, and for one 

 month, from the 20th of October to the 20th of November; my cows 

 produced more butter than any month during the summer, except 

 in the month of June. 



One acre of beets will feed a herd of 25 cows, one-half bushel 

 each per day for eighty days, with paying results, in an increased 

 flow of milk and an increased per centage of butter. One-fourth 

 acre of beets of average yield will feed ten calves four quarts per 

 day, each, for six months, at a cost in addition to their hay, of 

 one dollar and ninety-two cents each. If these are heifer calves, 

 raised to renew the dairy, this mode of feeding will tend to de- 

 velop those qualities most desirable for the dairy. Heifers from 

 good milking stock wintered their first two winters thus, will, 

 when put to dairy service, make cows that any dairyman may well 

 be proud of. The hogs that every dairyman will keep more or less 

 of, may be wintered cheaper on beets than on any other food. I 

 use Wilhird's root slicer, which has pi-oved an effective machine, 

 cutting a bushel of roots in a minute. It slices them into 

 shavings about three-fourths of an inch wide, and half as thick. 

 I feed beets whole to my cows in the fall on the grass as I would 

 pumpkins. 



[Note, by the Secretary. — Experience in Maine, so far as is 

 known, both upon the College Farm at Orono, and with cultivators 

 in various parts of the State, including trials on my own grounds, 

 fully sustains the reputation which Lane's Improved American 

 Imperial Sugar Beet has obtained in Vermont.] 



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