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produce the ‘effects witnessed in all beet-yrowing countries, that “ wherever beets 
are grown for a sugar-crop there the produce of the land is more than doubled” not 
only in money-value from the sugar-crop, but also from the quantity of wheat and 
other grains, and of meat, which also is doubled. This has also been especially shown | 
in France, in the Departement du Nord, where the amounts of cereals and meat have 
been more than double since the beet-root sugar industry became established. 
How can this end be accomplished? All that the farmer will require in addition to 
his ordinary utensils is as follows: 1. A common wooden cage, such as any carpenter 
can make, to revolve in a trough, for washing the roots; 2. A rasp to be moved 
either by steam or horse-power, for reducing the roots to a pulp; 3. A common press, 
made with either screws or levers—a cider or cheese-press will answer; 4. Cloths of 
hemp canvas in which to envelop the pulp for pressing; 5. A boiler made of iron and 
wood, similar to those used in the West for boiling the juices of the maple, and of sor- 
ghum ; 6. A simple filter for filtration of the juices after defecation; 7. A machine 
for carbonizing the lime in the juice; this is a very simple affair and not costly; 8. 
The evaporating-boiler—the same as mentioned in No. 5, above. 
With these requisites, all that has to be done by the farmer is to evaporate the defe- 
cated and clear juice down to proper consistency. It may then be run into casks, and 
will keep any length of time, and can be as easily carried to market as sacks of grain, 
a barrel of black salts, or a barrel of pork. 
FACTS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. 
© EXPERIMENTS WITH WHEAT ON THE EASTERN FARM OF PENNSYL- 
VANIA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.—The superintendent of the eastern ex- 
perimental farm of Pennsylvania Agricultural College, located in the 
county of Chester, makes the following report of experiments with wheat 
of several varieties during the season of 1872~’73: 
The ground used was an oat-stubble, with a coat of barn-yard manure plowed under 
and surface application of dissolyed-bone and ashes compost, put on at the rate of four 
hundred pounds of dissolved bone and eight bushels of tan-ashes per acre, harrowed in. 
The seed was sown broadcast, at the rate of two bushels per acre, on the 20th of 
September, 1872, dnd the wheat cut from July 9th to 14th, and thrashed July 15th ‘to 
20th. 
The wheat was weighed when run through the fan once, and not entirely clean, but 
as the rakings of the plots were not included in the weights the results would not be 
seriously altered by the second cleaning. The plots‘contained one-eighth of an acre, 
with a space of two feet between them. 
N Kind | Color of | Smoothor | When | Pounds | Pounds 
ag te grain. Bearded. ripe. of straw. | of grain. 
Hal eianGaster Wed. 2.2.20 so scisceak deeeee coe Reds... - Bearded ..| July 10 370 230 
2 enone bianad Ready 2.2.0. 12 peeaetseee sasee ee! Bowh 222222 10 521 2711 
Br MBUiGnhanye se okt. 2 Sol abet ies eee eee ede. <<< Bearded .. 10 300 220 
44) (BS DROT Score pep cee < =< ona pave eee ane nee Amber..| Smooth ... 14 485 261 
ap) MNGi Ri lect) a cee ee MERA I  s ei. ite ..| Bearded -. 9 3474 216 
DR MEOICHE cae sole ooh ol ce Ve ode nase ewes see ite ..| Bearded .- 14 442 213 
OO Bh eis Smooth .-- 9 5034 2824 
8 | Jenning’s ... -| Bearded -. 9 4542 2232 
9 | Shoemaker. - Smooth .-- 12 4612 2284 
10 | Tappahannoc -| Smooth ... 9 2Q76F 1473 
11 | Arnold's No.9. a -| Smooth -.. 10 4414 2044 
2) | UESIGOS) ot ssec gees poe eone sec ecece =A Bearded . 11 399} 2204 
13 | Dot or Paducah Bearded -.- 9 437 2264 
14 | Lancaster Early | | Bearded -.- 11 426 249 
Ts) Ped setts, 42> eee om ee eles | lL Bearded -- 11 430 260 
16 | Old White C. M | Bearded ... 11 400 225 
EXPERIMENTS WITH FERTILIZERS ON WHEAT.—These experiments were made upon 
wheat-stubble ground, upon which barnyard manure had been used for previous crop. 
The fertilizers were applied at the rate of $12.50 worth per acre; put on the surface, 
and harrowed in on the 14th of September. On the 18th of September one and one- 
half bushels per acre of Fultz wheat was drilled in. Plots contained one-eighth of 
an acre, with two-feet of space between the rows. 
