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Mangel JFurtzeL JFinter Food for Cattle, 



[The following account of methods used in the cul- 

 tivation of the improved beet-root^ or mangel wurtzel, 

 is taken from a recent publication by Mr. P'mder >S'/wj&- 

 ^f?n, of the county of Essex, England, 1814.* Experi- 

 ment 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 bul- 

 lock fatting^ fourteen weeks. Dry fodder must ac- 

 company this green food. The produce of six acres 

 will fiitten sixty bullocks ; allowing each 100 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 fif- 

 teen inches apart each way. Produce per acre 50 tons. 



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

 eighteen inches apart in each row. Produce per acre 

 2-2 tons. 



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

 plants left twelve inches apart in each row. Produce 

 per acre 48 tons. 



By these different methods, results will prove which 

 is preferable. Its great advantages over turnips are 



* The advertisernent prefixed to the book states, that the obser- 

 vations were made upon crops of the root grown upon a farm at 

 Bedfords, in the county of Essex, containin(> 600 acres, belonging 

 to John Heaton Esq. and in his own occupation. 

 VOL, III. n * 



