.202 FARMER'S ASSISTANT. 



of Essex, England, 1814.* Experiment must decide to 

 what degree these statements will apply to the culture of 

 this root in our Country. 



Fifty tons have been raised on an acre, in England. The 

 produce of one-tenth of an acre will keep a Bullock fating^ 

 fourteen weeks. Dry fodder must accompany this green 

 food. The produce of six acres will faten sixty Bullocks ; 

 allowing each one hundred pounds per day ; as appears in 

 the statements made in this publication. 



1. In broad-cast, on strong land, spade-trenched, ten 

 inches deep, leaving the plants after hoeing nearly fifteen 

 inches apart each way. Produce, per acre, fifty tons. 



2. Transplanted in rows, three feet apart, the plants 

 eighteen inches apart in each row. Produce, per acre, 

 twenty-two tons. 



3. Dibbling the seed, in rows two feet apart, and the 

 plants left twelve inches apart in each row. Produce, per 

 acre, forty-eight tons. 



By these different methods, results will prove which is 

 preferable. Its great advantages over turnips are shown: 

 in every way, as well on account of the beet being more 

 nutritious, as its not being subject to the fly, or other an- 

 noyances to turnip-crops. Nor is the expense of cultiva- 

 tion so great} 



For the information and guidance of those Occupiers of 

 land, who may be desirous of cultivating the improved beet- 

 root upon strong land, the next chapter will contain a parti- 

 cular account of the method used in cultivating that root 

 upon strong land at Bedfords. The method there stated, 

 is that which has been found, on three years' trial, to be 

 least expensive in the begining, and most profitable in the 

 end. The cultivation of this root is earnestly recommended 

 to the attention of all Persons farming strong lands with a 

 view to profit. It should never be forgoten, that forty-eight 

 tons, the produce of only a single acre, of this root, will 

 make ten Bullocks fat enough for the Butcher; and that six 

 acres, of equal produce, will laten sixty Bullocks; that the 

 profit on euch Bullock will be considerable; and that, when 

 the business of feeding is over, the yard will be full of rich 

 dung: Neither should it be forgoten, that the Tenant* 

 who sells his straw, cannot partake of any of these advan- 

 tages. 



In proof of this assertion, the following facts are submit- 

 ed for consideration % 



* The advertisement prefixed to the book states, that the ob- 

 servations were imade upon crops of the root grown upon a farm at 

 Bedfords, in the county of Essex, containing six hundred acres> be- 

 longing to Jghn Hcaton, Esq. and in his own occupation. 



