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its place. Potatoes, if well manured, or barley, may 

 take the place of oats. 



The beet is excellent to precede all grain crops. It 

 is a good successor of potatoes well manured, or of 

 corn, and especially of rye or oats. It is a good suc- 

 cessor of tobacco. 



It is a bad successor of clover ; and worse still of 

 turnips, carrots, or forage beets. 



The quadrennial system of rotation permits quite a 

 range in the selection of crops, and change is bene- 

 ficial to the soil, and consequently to the crops. It 

 would be desiraHe so to arrange the fields, that clover 

 should not be raised on the same soil oftener than 

 once in eight years. 



BEET PULP. 



After the juice is expressed from the rasped beet, 

 the dry pulp remaining is an admirable food for cat- 

 tle, sheep, swine, or fowls, of which vast numbers are 

 fed in the sugar-producing districts of Europe. The 

 average amount of pulp is twenty per cent, of the 

 original weight of beets, and it is almost a universal 

 custom for farmers to contract with manufacturers 

 to receive back in pulp twenty per cent, of the weight 

 of beets furnished. For this the farmer pays two 

 to two and a half dollars per ton. If the manufac- 

 turer has any pulp remaining after his contracts with 

 the farmers are filled, he sells it to others at two dol- 

 lars and seventy-five cents to three dollars per ton. 



Repeated experiments have proved that for feeding 

 stock, three tons of pulp are fully equal in value to 

 one ton of the best hay. Cattle are very fond of it, 



