CULTURE OF THE SUGAR BEET. 



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DIFFERENT KINDS OF HAT. 



Meadow hay 



Kay grass 



Timothy 



Bed clover 



Lucerne 



Bine grass 



Average of all grasses . 



14.59 



11.23 



14.3 



18.38 



15.07 



14.3 



14.3 



10.11 

 8.0 

 9.7 

 12.97 

 14.76 

 8.9 

 9.5 



2.34 



2.80 



3.0 



2.18 



3.02 



2.3 



2.6 



a k o 



•40.90 

 44.58 

 45.8 

 36.16 

 35.65 

 39.1 

 41.7 



25.52 



25.45 



22.7 



24. 45 



24.08 



32.6 



28.7 



6.54 



7.95 



4.5 



5.86 



8.42 



5.1 



5.8 



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ClL. 



4.2 

 5.9 

 5.0 

 2.9 

 2.5 

 4.6 

 4.66 



DISTILLERY BEFUSE. 



From corn mash. 

 From rye mash . 

 From beer mash. 



From this it would appear that in order to secure in pulp from the 

 presses the equivalents of hay from the sources mentioned there will be 

 required — 



Tons pulp. 



For 1 ton clover hay %i 



For 1 ton timothy hay 3£ 



For 1 ton average of all grasses 3 



With a crop of 20 tons of beets per acre, therefore, the yield in feed- 

 ing material is by no means insignificant. 



Now, concerning the relative value of pulps from the presses and 

 diffusion, we may quote a review of the late work of Dr. Petermann, the 

 able director of the agricultural station of Gembloux, bearing upon this 

 subject, and published in the Journal d? agriculture pratique, 1879, p. 13: 



These residues are far from having the same value according as the beets are treated 

 by the ordinary method (with presses), or by the system of diffusion. In the first case, 

 the roots being submitted to rasping, the cells are torn, and the saline and albuminoid 

 matters are mixed up with the sugar in the juice by the action of the press. In the 

 second case the cells are preserved intact in cutting the beets in thin slices, to be ex- 

 hausted with tepid water. The residues from diffusion are almost free from sugar. If 

 in the dry state they are more rich in albuminoids; in the fresh state they contain a. 

 larger proportion of water and are much less nutritive, as the following analyses by 

 Dr. Petermann will show : 



