REPORT OF TEE CUE MI ST. 177 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



This condiment consists largely of -finely ground linseed meal or cake, to whieli 

 has been added common salt, saltpetre and copperas (sulphate of iron). It has been 

 flavoured by the addition of a small amount of fenugreek. 



The prices generally asked for such condition powders are far in excess of their 

 value, whether such materials be considered as medicine or food, or both. The stock 

 feeder or dairyman will find it greatly to his profit to obtain such medicine or treat- 

 ment as his animals may at any time require rather than to pay exorbitant prices for 

 materials, which may or may not benefit his stoclc, and the nutritive value of which 

 is certainly less than manv concentrated feed stuffs on the market. 



SUGAK BEETS. 



MANITOBA. 



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In August of the current year we received a communication from the Winnipeg 



Eoard of Trade informing us that the Department of Agriculture of Manitoba had 

 undertaken at the board's request a series of experiments in the growth of sugar 

 beets, and asking for an examination of these beets in the farm laboratories. As no 

 analyses had been made by us of sugar beets raised in Manitoba, and as apparently 

 there were no data on record concerning the relative richness of the root as grown 

 in that province, it was decided to undertake the investigation. It was thought 

 desirable at the same time that beets grown on the experimental farms at Brandon, 

 Man., and Indian Head, JST.W.T., sliould be tested, and to this end samples of the six 

 varieties under test at these farms were received, and, together with those forwarded 

 by Mr. Hugh McKellar, Chief Clerk, Department of Agriculture, Winnipeg, Mani- 

 toba, submitted to analysis. The particulars of growth of the roots from Winnipeg 

 are furnished by Mr. McKellar in Table I ; their analytical data are given in Table 

 IT. 



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