CULTIVATION OF THE BEET. 



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METHOD OF PRESERVATION IN SAXONY. 



A method of preserving beets prevails in Saxony 

 that seems an admirable one, and well adapted to 

 existing conditions in Illinois, where straw is super 

 abundant and comparatively without value. 



To facilitate the explanation I present the following 

 diagram : 



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B i, B 2, and B 3 are trenches, six feet broad and 

 two feet deep, to be used as silos or pits, made chiefly 

 with the plough on three sides of a parallelogram. 

 The trench B 3 is fifty-two feet long, and the space 

 C between the trenches has a breadth of forty feet 

 and a length as great as may be needed. Storage 

 is commenced by building piles in the silo B 3, in 

 the manner described on page 113, beginning on the 



