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It will not be supposed, by any intelligent farmer, 

 that where the quantity of the improved beet root given 

 daily to a bullock is stated, it is meant that it should 

 be given without dry food. It may, however, be ne- 

 cessary to say, that the same dry food must be given 

 with the beet as is usually given with turnips. Mr, 

 Heaton last year gave oat straw only, and the bullocks 

 did well upon that food, and were sold to profit. No 

 doubt they would have been ready for the butcher 

 sooner, had good hay been given to them : but this 

 fact may be relied upon, that fresh bullocks, fed upon 

 the beet root and oat straw, will, in three months time, 

 get fat enough for the butcher. 



It may also be necessary to observe, that not a word, 

 here stated, is intended to apply to such light turnip 

 soils as will bear the trampling of sheep, without inju- 

 ry to the land. Mr. Heaton has none upon his farm, 

 and I have not sufficient knowledge of the manage- 

 ment of turnip land, of that description, to say, whe- 

 ther prudence would warrant any trial of the beet root 

 upon a large scale, on such soil, to be eaten on the land. 



Where a field, selected for a crop of beet, happens 

 to be in a foul state, the seed had better be sown in a 

 garden, and the whole field planted with the young 

 beet, when of the size of a radish. This will give time 

 for cleaning the ground, and fitting it for a crop ; for, 

 although the beets are destroyers of weeds, it is not 

 meant to recommend sowing them on foul ground, or 

 in any way to encourage a slovenly system of farming. 



Although manure has been used in the cultivation 

 of this root, it is not absolutely necessary ; and, if not 

 in a rotten state, it does mischief. Good crops have 



