tlie Austro-Himgarian Empire. 



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year, sugai'-beet, grown with wood-ashes and superphosphate ; 

 5th year, peas and horse-beans, dunged ; 6th, sugar-beet, with 

 wood-ashes and superphosphate ; 7th year, barley or other spring 

 corn ; 8th, sugar-beet, with " lime-slime " from sugar-factory ; 

 9th year, barley, sown down with clover or lucern ; 10th year, 

 clover or lucern ; 11th year, clover or lucern. The farm is 

 worked by 20 horses and 140 to 180 bullocks of the German 

 race. (See last Report.) 



The sugar-beet is grown in rows 12 to 14 inches wide, and 

 the plants are left 8 inches apart. They expect at least 12 tons 

 per acre, and consider 14 tons to be an average. They purchase 

 from three-fourths to four-fifths of all the beet they manipulate, 

 at an average pi'ice of Is. 3d. per cwt. delivered, and the pulp is 

 sold back at 6d. (20 kr.) per cwt. fresh, or 8c?. to dd. stale. The 

 peasants receive from Is. to 1^. Qd. per cwt. for their beet, and are 

 allowed back pulp at 7d. to 8d. per cwt. 



The greater part of the pulp is consumed upon the estate, and 

 two lots of 70 bullocks each are annually fatted. The working 

 oxen were being fed three times a day. In the morning they 

 received 60 to 70 lbs. of pulp with 2 lbs. per head of barley or 

 bean-meal and chaff, and 1 oz. of salt ; and at mid-day green 

 food, when not hard at work ; but in busy times they receive 

 pulp three times a day. They also have a handful of long hay 

 after each feed, and a little salt. The pulp is stored in trenches, 

 and will keep fresh 

 for five or six years. ^^S' ^' — Section of Trench for storing Beet-root 



No salt is used, but ■^"^■^* 



the mass is firmly 

 trodden and well 

 covered with earth. 

 This practice also 

 prevails in Hun- 

 gary, and has been 

 previously men- 

 tioned. The pit is 

 of any length, about 

 4 feet 6 inches deep, 

 and 6 feet wide. 

 The pulp is raised 

 above the level, and the whole is covered with 15 inches deep 

 of earth. 



Fatting cattle receive 60 to 70 lbs. of pulp, and 6 to S^ lbs. of 

 meal, and increase at the rate of rather over 2 lbs. per day. The 

 steward did not recommend pulp or distillery wash for breeding 

 stock, as he considered it injurious to the lungs. Cows are 

 therefore kept until they have had two calves, and are then fatted 



