Root-Crops for Stock-Feeding. 



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were taken as quickly as possible for dry matter determination by Dr. 

 J. A, Bizzell, and all analyses, except those of sugar-beets in 1904, were 

 made by him. 



Sugar-heets. 



Sugar-beets were not included in the list of types of roots just de- 

 scribed, but they were grown at the same time in co-operation with the 



Fig. 25. — Carter Green Globe turnip. A good yielder, large specimens sometimes 

 weighing five pounds. In roundness, uniformity and appearance this variety 

 is better than Fig. 24. 



United States Department of Agriculture on the Experiment Grounds 

 some distance from the main experiment, on soil of the same general 

 character. The early sown crop of sugar-beets was a failure. A second 

 sowing was made June 16, 1904. 



Part of the land had been growing sugar-beets for four consecutive 

 years, this being the fifth successive crop. In 1903 the plants on this 



