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taste as cane molasses, and is mostly fermented into alcohol. 

 The refuse beet pulp is an important cattle food. 



Beets, especially the red variety, are also used as a kitchen 

 vegetable, for cooking, salad, and pickles. 



Beets of all kinds are sown in rows or drills, about two feet 



FIG. 162. Growing sugar-beet seed in Utah. 



apart each way if large tubers are to be grown, or only ten 

 inches in the row if small roots are wanted, as in sugar beets. 

 Turnips are of two chief kinds, readily distinguished by 

 the leaves. In those of the " Swede" type the leaves are 

 similar in color and surface to the cabbage, while the other 

 group, the common turnips, have the rough and dark leaves 

 of the mustards. The flesh of the common turnips is white, 



