168 AN AMERICAS' FARMER IX ENGLAND. 



by hand, and is harvested more readily than any other. It will 

 keep (at New York) in the open air, in stacks four feet wide and 

 high, covered with straw and six inches of earth, a small hole 

 being left in the top for ventilation, until April, and is then of 

 great value to new milk-cows and ewes with lambs. 



I particularly recommend the cultivation of the sugar and 

 mangel-wurzel beets to cottage-farming gentlemen, who wish to 

 keep a small dairy with a limited extent of land. 



