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Vol. IV. 



each row with a horse plough, then they may 

 be pulled with little labor. By this, or some 

 better way if it can be devised, beets may be 

 raised at a small expense, and as lands and 

 animal labor are cheaper here than in France, 

 and as much labor can be done here by ani- 

 mals which is performed there by the hands, 

 we think our advantages are equal to those of 

 France in the cheapness of manual labor. — 

 But supposing our advantages in raising the 

 beets are not equal as to a cheap production, 

 we have reckoned the expense higher in the 

 calculation we have published, so as to con- 

 form to a fair estimate on all expense. In- 

 stead of three dollars and twenty cents per 

 ton as in France, we have reckoned at five 

 dollars per ton. No calculation on the ex- 

 pense of raising beets or other crop? can be 

 made exactly suited to all parts of the coun- 

 try, as the prices of labor and land are differ- 

 ent. Near cities and large towns, and near 

 the sea-board, owing to good advantages for 

 markets, and communications, lands are high- 

 er, and the rent of them more, of course, than 

 in tlie interior ; in such cases labor too is 

 usually somewhat higher. 



Estimated expense of an acre of Sugar Beets. 



Use of an acre of land well prepared for beets, 

 and manured, or managed in the previous 



crop $12 00 



Plouirliing, - 4 00 



Cultivator-i«^, horse, cultivator and hand, two 



hours, 50 



Twice more before sowing, 1 00 



Harrowing, 50 



feed $2 25, sowing with a machine 75, 3 00 



First hoeing 4 00 



Second hoeing, thinning, and transplanting to 



supply deficiencies, 4 00 



Hoeing again, and loosening the ground with 



machines, 2 00 



Harvesting, 9 00 



$40 00 



Make the rows two feet four inches apart, 

 and then a cultivator can be used in hoeing. 

 If the beets stand one foot apart in tlie rows, 

 and weigh two and a quarter pounds each, tlie 

 yield will be twenty tons. In rich groimd at 

 that distance, a great number will weigh four 

 or five pounds each ; twenty tons is a good 

 crop, but not extremely largo, tor in some 

 cases twenty-five or tliirty tons to the acre 

 have been raised in this country. At the 

 above expense of forty dollars to the acre with 

 a yield of twenty tons, the cost would be two 

 dollars per ton. We make this estimate, to 

 show liow clieap beets may bo raised under 

 favorable circumstances, such as good land at 

 a fair price, convenient machinery and im- 

 plements, and the most prudential manage- 

 nent in the culture, with labor at a moderate 

 pice, and a fiivorablc season. We have no 

 doibt that in some parts of New England, 

 betts could he produced in great ahundaiicc 

 at tn? above price; but we must not always 



expect a combination of favorable circum- 

 stances. 



Supposing we reckon the produce only two- 

 thirds as much as above, say thirteen and 

 two-third tons, and the cost thirty-two and a 

 half per cent, more, which will be fifty-three 

 dollars and tliirty-three cents ; then the cost 

 of the beets will be only four dollars per ton, 

 one-fifth less than Mr. Bosson reckoned in his 

 calculation on the cost of beet sugar. If we 

 reckon fifty pounds to the bushel, thirteen and 

 a half tons per acre would be only five hun- 

 dred and thirty-three bushels, which would be 

 no more than a middling crop ; not half as 

 much as has been raised in a number of cases 

 that have been named. — Yankee Fanner. 



A Ilint. 



A soil may be forced, by extreme care, 

 enormous expense, and the use of manure 

 without measure, to produce all sorts of crops ; 

 but it is not in such sort of proceedings that 

 the science of agriculture consists. Agricul- 

 ture ought not to be considered as an object 

 of luxury, and whenever the produce of ag- 

 ricultural management does not amply ro]3ay 

 the care and expense bestowed upon it, the 

 system followed is bad. A good agriculturist, 

 will, in the first place, make himself ac- 

 quainted with the nature of the soil, in order 

 to know the kind of plants to which it is best 

 adapted ; this knowledge may be easily ac- 

 quired by an acquaintance with the species of 

 the plants produced upon it spontaneously, or 

 by experiments made upon the land, or upon 

 analogous soils in the neighborhood. 



This excellent plant, which should have a 

 place in every garden, is very easily raised, re- 

 quiring nothing more than a rich loamy situa- 

 tion. It is an orchard in miniature, the stems 

 of its leaves aflcrding a sub.'-tance which is an 

 excellent substitute for apples, to make sauce 

 or pie.-j. The sauce made from it, is very 

 wholesome and palatable, and will be a good 

 preventive of bowel complaints. It is taid 

 that by stejving it with sugar and preparing 

 it in the same manner as tor the table, it may 

 be bottled and corked up tight and ])rcserved 

 lor winter. Indeed, we do not see why it may 

 not be kept as long as apple sauce, or any of 

 the berries that are preserved in this way 

 without being bottled up. Some of our good 

 housewives had better try the experiment. — 

 Maine Farmer. 



The law compels no one to do a benefit, nor 

 permits him to do an injury for nothing. 

 A oood maxim is never out of season. 

 A bitter jest is the poison of friendship. 



