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In thinning, always select and leave the strongest, healthiest, and 

 most uniform sized plants. Great care should be taken to leave the 

 voung plant in as good a condition as possible by placing a little earth 

 around the root, so that it cannot fall down nor get sunburned. 



Start vour cultivator as soon as the beets are well through the 

 ground, so as to keep the weeds from starting. Cultivate often, par- 

 ticularly after everv rain, always leaving the surface level and never 

 hilling or ridging up the beets. 



The beet is one of the best crops to give profitable returns in pro- 

 portion to the care and attention bestowed on it. Various important 

 p".ints are: — Secure a good stand by using plenty of seed and properly 

 preparing the soil ; thin properly when the young beet has reached the 

 proper size; avoid thinning out too far apart in the rows; maintain a 

 good state of cultivation. 



The proper time to thin is upon the marked appearance of the third 

 or fourth leaf. The secret of raising beets cheaplv and of good yield 

 and qualitv is — keep a clean field. 



On the Value of Beet Pulp as Tattle Fodder. 

 Ail important feature of the beet-sugar industry is the supply of pulp 

 which it returns to the farmer. This beet-pulp forms a valuable stock 

 food, and the testimony of farmers and others entitled to speak upon the 

 subject will be read with interest. 



The United States Secretary for Agriculture states : — ■ 

 " In order to get the benefit of beets as a rotator and to get the pulp to feed 

 to his cows the farmer could actually afford to furnish to the factory the sugar 

 from his beets free, and then would be only selling the air — for the sugar in beets 

 comes wholly from the air." 



I take the following from a recent article in the American Sugar 

 Industry relative to the value of beet pulp as a stock feed : — 



" Sugar beets will yield from fifteen to twenty tons per acre. About 

 two-thirds of this will be returned as pulp The tops make additional 

 feed. The dry matter contained in a pound of beet pulp is about equal to 

 the dry matter in an equal amount of ordinary roots, such as mangels. 

 It has been found that one pound of corn is equal to eight pounds of wet 

 beet pulp when fattening lambs. Beet-pulp, either wet or dry, constitutes 

 an important addition to the list of feeds that the dairyman may feed to 

 his cows."' 



" Experiments in feeding both wet and dried pulp have l^een carried 

 on at some of the stations. The Utah Station found that horses will 

 eat as high as twenty pounds of wet pulp daily Combined with oats 

 and lucerne, 9.5 pounds of the wet pulp were found equal to 1.5 pounds 

 of oats. At this rate, with oats at two shillings a bushel, wet beet pulp 

 is worth about sixteen shillings a ton. Nine pounds of w^et pulp were 

 equal in feeding value to 2.8 pounds of lucerne. If lucerne is worth 

 ^2 10s. a ton. then pulp is worth nearly sixteen shillings," 



Some Experiences with Wet Pulp. 



Interesting as may be the experimental work, the experience of some 

 of the farmers who have been using the feed carries much weight. The 

 following statements are from men who have been feeding wet pulp : — 



Xo. I. — " T cannot speak too highly of the feeding value of sugar-beet 

 pulp for cattle. I have had nothing but excellent results from feeding it to 



