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paying five dollars per ton, which would make the profit 

 on my quarter of an acre $17.90, or at the rate of $71.60 

 per acre ; but, in order to realize the greatest profit, the 

 pulp should be returned to the farm, and fed out to the 

 stock thereon. By the system of preserving cattle-food 

 in Silos, this can be done most economically. A small 

 Silo ten feet wide, twenty feet long, and ten feet deep, 

 will hold about sixty tons of pulp. By covering it with 

 a little straw, and upon that a flooring of plank, with 

 weights upon it, the same as in the Silos of corn Ensi- 

 lage, it may be kept for a long time. The beet-pulp, 

 containing as it does all the nutrition except a part of 

 the sugar, would be an excellent food to feed with the 

 corn Ensilage. It is also a very good article of food for 

 swine by itself. 1 



In regard to the manure, I have demonstrated by 

 several careful experiments since the above was written, 

 that the best time and way to apply manure is when you 

 have time, and with a broadcast manure-spreader. 



1 I have learned, since writing the above, that the best way to raise sugar-beets 

 is to have the rows eighteen inches apart, and to thin to nine inches. 



