No. 2. Beet Sugar — Hollow Horn^ Potatoes — Implements for Boys. 19 



some service to you. Please to mention 

 also, what use you intend to make of the 

 remnants of beets. These remnants are of 

 greater value here than in France. I have 

 studied and compared this branch of industry, 

 and I do not hesitate to say, that if the acre 

 can produce here, as in Europe, from 30 to 

 40,000 lbs. of beets, it will be the most im- 

 portant branch, cotton excepted. Should 

 you not be provided with all kinds of ma- 

 chinery, I have here at your service four 

 large boilers, with double tubes, called a la 

 moid farine for vapor boiling, and another 

 for the vacuum. 



Please to honor me by your answer, and 



receive the assurance of my high considera- j 



tion. I 



Claudot Dumorel. I 



Beet Sugar. 



At a time when so many are, from neces- 

 sity, turning their attention to some new em- 

 ployment, it cannot be amiss to refer to the 

 advantages which the cultivation of the Su- 

 gar Beet hold out to those who are desirous 

 of entering on the duties of a farm. It is but 

 recently that this article has been introduced 

 into the United States, and few are probably 

 aware of the profits arising from its culture. 

 The Sugar Beet is adapted to every variety 

 of soil, and can be raised in all parts of our 

 country — from the rich alluvial lands of the 

 west, to the almost sterile of the New Eng- 

 land States. The machinery for its manu- 

 ture has been brought to a high degree of 

 perfection in France, but no doubt admits of 

 still greater improvement. 



The average crop of roots in France, is 

 40,000 pounds per acre. The per centage of 

 saccharine matter is 12; but only 4 to 8 per 

 cent, is obtained. The products of sugar, 

 therefore, from one acre, are about 3000 

 pounds, which at 8 cents, would give $ 240, 

 exclusive of the molasses. The cakes are 

 also useful in fattening cattle and sheep. 

 Comparing it then with the average crop of 

 wheat, which does not exceed 25 bushels per 

 acre, at two dollars, we find a difference of 

 $ 190 in favor of the beet crop. 



The consumption of sugar in this country, 

 is great. Mr. Samuel Fleet, a distinguished 

 writer, and formerly editor of the N. Y. 

 Farmer, states that "during Napoleon's con- 

 tinental restrictions, a fraction more than one 

 pound per head was yearly consumed in 

 France. In England, where the price of su- 

 gar is less, and where the people generally 

 are better able to purchase, the consumption 

 is sixteen pounds per head. In the East andj 

 West Indies, there is a far greater use of it ; ' 

 for instance, in Cuba 120 pounds are con- 

 sumed by each of the free population." j 



For tbe Farmers' Cabiuel. 



Hollo^v Koru— Potatoes. 



Mr. Editor — I have read with much at- 

 tention the controversy in the Cabinet on the 

 " Hollow Horn." 1 am not about to enter 

 the lists, but sufl^er me to ask why it is that 

 Subscriber, who believes firmly in the Hol- 

 low Horn, has not given us the remedtj. 

 That's what 1 want to know. Now for my 

 experience. About nine years since, my cat- 

 tle were afflicted with the iJollow Horn, and 

 it atHicted me very sorely, 1 assure you, as 

 several of them died. But 1 bored away. — 

 One morning while engaged in this business, 

 I was accosted by an intelligent farmer, re- 

 cently from England — ho was surprised at 

 the operation. 1 told him that it was tiie 

 only way of saving my cattle — that several 

 had already died of the Hollow Horn, and the 

 others assuredly would, unless bored. He ab- 

 solutely laughed at me — I felt provoked, but 

 was still willing to hear him, as 1 might get 

 an original idea. He stated that the"" Hol- 

 low Horn" did not exist in England. That 

 it was not a disease of the horns, that horn- 

 less cattle had all the symptoms, &c. He 

 advised me to desist boring — After much per- 

 suasion I did so; and he recommended me to 

 give each of my cows a half a peck of pota- 

 toes twice a week, for three or four weeks in 

 succession, and then occasionally, as circum- 

 stances might require — and by all means to 

 keep my cattle well sheltered, and in good 

 condition. I obeyed his directions — and the 

 consequence is, that my cattle have not been 

 troubled with the hollow liorn since that time. 

 1 have, therefore, come to the conclusion, that 

 cattle well housed in bad weather, and kept 

 in good heart, at all seasons, and properly at- 

 tended to, stand in no danger of hollow horu. 

 A Montgomery Countv Farmer. 



IiuplemeiBts for Boys. 



A friend who feels considerable inierest in 

 the promotion of agricultural science, — and 

 whose practice in this matter corresponds 

 with his sentiments, has called our attention 

 to the subject of agricultural implements for 

 boys. He states, that in many cases he has 

 observed a marked difference in various re- 

 spects, between those who have had imple- 

 ments suited to their age and strength, placed 

 in their hands, and those who have been com- 

 pelled to operate with such as are dispropor- 

 tioned to their years, or the physical force 

 they are capable of exerting with ease. The 

 importance of this subject has not been duly 

 estimated — indeed, it has been almost en- 

 tirely overlooked. We ask for it the atten- 

 tion of our correspondents. 



