90 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



64 VICTORIA, A. 1901 



yard manure was applied. In thinning for forage, plants were left 8 inches apart, 

 but for sugar, 4 inches apart. The hoeing, cultivating, &c., of the two plots was the 

 same for some time, but when a fair growth had been made, that is, when the plants 

 were about two months old, those intended for forage were treated as mangels, that is, 

 the upper part of the root left exposed, while those intended for sugar were hilled up, 

 the whole root and crown thereof being covered. 



Th yield per acre was nearly the same from the two plots, being at the rate of 

 81 tons 640 pounds from the fortge and 20 tons 1,060 pounds from the sugar plot. 



The digestible dry matter content of the roots from the two plots differed mater- 

 ially, namely, 22-50 pounds of dry matter in 100 pounds of roots in the case of roota 

 intended for sugar, and 18-74 pounds of dry matter in 100 pounds of roots intended for 

 forage. 



Below is the cost of producing sugar beets (a) for sugar (&) for forage : — 



(a). BEBTS (for sugar.) 



Cost of growing one-quarter acre sugar heets for sugar — 



Rent of land, at $3 $0 75 



Cultivating in autumn 37i 



i manure, at 15 tons per acre, valued at $1 per ton 75 



Ploughing in spring 50 



Harrowing 10 



Drilling 33 



Eolling 05 



Seed, 3 pounds at 20 cents 60 



' Sowing, 1 hour 12^ 



Hand-wheel hoeing, 2i hours 33 



Thinning, 11 hours 1 38 



Hoeing, 7 hours 87 J 



Cultivating, single horpe 1 05 



Ploughing out roots, 1 hour at 25 cents 25 



Pulling and topping, 32 hours at 12^ cents 1 50 



Drawing in roots, 3 hours 75 



Loading and unloading, 10 hours 1 25 



$10.96 J 

 Yield on one-quarter acre, 10,265 pounds. 



Cost of producing 1 ton ! , . $2 14 



Cost of producing 1 bushel 6-42 cts. 



Digestible diy matter in 1 ton, 450 pound>. 



Cost of 100 pounds of digestible dry matter 48 cts. 



(&.) — BEETS (for feed.) 



Cost of growing one-quarter acre sugar heets for feed— 



Eent of land, at $3 $0 75 



Cultivating in autumn 37i 



\ manure, at 15 tons per acre, valued at $1 per ton 75 



Ploughing in spring 50 



Harrowing 10 



Drilling 33 



