Root-Crops for Stock-Feeding. 



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Table VII. Summary of Yields of Mangels, 1906. 



SUMMARY FOR THREE YEARS. 



A summary of the results for the three years appears in the following 

 table (VIII). It is difficult to make a comparative study of these results 

 on any other than a dry-matter basis. From this point of view it will be 

 noticed that sugar-beets give the highest average of dry matter, but the 

 difficulty of harvesting these perhaps offsets their advantage in yield. 

 They are more difficult to harvest and more of them must be handled. 

 Next in yield of dry matter stands the mangels and half-sugar mangels, 

 with rutabagas and cabbages following next closely. No doubt, in gen- 

 eral the greatest economy will be practiced by growing cabbages, ruta- 

 bagas and mangels for succession-harvesting and feeding, more especially 

 on farms where sheep and swine are kept. 



