1851. 



THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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roots, and 9 J in the tops. 100 lbs. of the fresh roots 

 contain a little over 1 lb. of inorganic matter ; while 

 100 lbs. of tops yield 1.85 lbs. 100 lbs. of the dry 

 roots contain 9.072 lbs. of inorganic matter ; and 

 100 lbs. of the dry tops furnish"'l9.618 lbs. 9259 

 lbs. of the fresh roots contain 100 lbs. of inorganic 

 matter. 5105 lbs. of the fresh tops yield 100 lbs. of 

 inorganic matter. 



Composition of inorganic matter. 



100 lbs. nf inorganic matter of 

 Roots. Tops, 



Carbonic acid, 16.27 21.90 



Silicic aeid, - fl.8-5 2.55 



Pliosi)horic acid, 9.85 8.20 



riiospbate of iron, 1.15 3.75 



Lime,.-. 1.50 10.25 



Blagncsia, 1.15 4.10 



Poiash, 13.10 7.70 



Soda 53.05 37.30 



Chlorine, 0.81 0.(10 



Sulphuric acid,-. 1.65 3.05 



By ordinary culture, 20 tons can easily be raised 

 to the acre. Twenty tons of the fresh roots contain 

 432 lbs. of inorganic matter. These 432 lbs. con- 

 tain the following bodies, in about the proportions 

 given below. 



Carbonic acid, 70| lbs. 



Silicic acid, .. 3^ " 



Phosphoric acid, 42^ " 



Phosphate of iron, 5 " 



Lime, 6| " 



Rlagncsia,-. 5 " 



Potash 56i " 



Soda, 232 " 



Chlorine, — 3J- •' 



Sulphuric acid, 7 " 



In round number.?, the following materials, in the 

 quantities mentioned below, furni.sh more than an 

 adequate supply of nourishment, to an ordinary soil, 

 for 20 tons of beet roots : 300 lbs. of ashes, 200 lbs. 

 of common salt, and 6 tons of good barn-yard ma- 

 nure. The tops are generolly left upon the ground, 

 hence it is not necessary to include them in the 

 materials removed from the soil. 



Proximate organic compositioji. nf the roots. 



100 lbs. of 

 Fivsh Roots. 



Water, 89.095 



Fiber, 2.310 



Sugar, 6.125 



Dextrine, 1.035 



Casein,.- 0.040 



Albuuien, 1.155 



Starch, 0.313 



Resin, 0.057 



Gluten, 0.02'0 



Red coloring matter, 0.018 



Fat .- trace 



100 lbs. of 

 Diy Roots. 



20.860 

 55.327 

 9.347 

 0.3G1 

 10.431 

 2.815 

 0.519 

 0.130 

 0.153 

 trace 



In the above analysis, we see tlie nutritive power 

 of this variety of beet. The average amount of dry 

 matter in the- fresh, mature roots does not vary much 

 from 10 per cent. One ton of the fresh roots con- 

 tains of sugar, 122^ lbs.; of dextrine, 20.7 lbs.; of 

 albumen, casein, and gluten, 24^ lbs. 



Ultimate organic analysis of 100 parts of dry roots. 



Nitrogen,-. 1.445 



Carbon, 41.435 



Oxygen, 42.256 



Hydrogen, 6.514 



Inorganic matter, 9.072 



It will be seen from this last analysis that 100 lbs. 

 of dry beet roots contain about 1 J lbs. of nitrogen, 

 41^ lbs. of cartoon, 42 J lbs. of oxygen, 6^ lbs. of 

 hydrogen, an 1 9 lbs. of inorganic mutter. The or- 

 ganic part is almost entirely made up of sugar, fiber, 

 albumen, dextrine, and starch ; the inorganic part, of 

 eoda, potash, and phosphoric acid. 



AGRICULTtTRAL ADDRESSES. 



We have read with pleasure many of the Agricultu- 

 ral Addresses delivered at State and County Fai'" 

 this fall. Every farmer and every farmer's v jq 

 should read the extract below from Maj. r.4TKicK's 

 address before the JelTerson County Agricultural So- 

 ciety, in this State : 



" An industrious pair, some 20 or 30 years ago, commenced 

 the world with strong hands, stout hearts, robust health and 

 steady habits. By the blessing of Heaven their industry has 

 been rewarded with plenty, and their labors have been 

 crowned with success. The dense forest has given place to 

 stalely orchards of fruit, and fertile fields, and waving mea- 

 dows, and verdant pastures, covered with the evidences of 

 worldly prosperity. The log cabin is gone, and in its .stead 

 a fair white house, two stories, and a wing with kitchen in 

 the rear, flanked by barns, and cribs, and granaries, and dairy 

 houses. 



•' But take a nearer view. Ha ! what means this mighty- 

 crop of unmown thistles bordering the road? For what 

 mirket is that still mightier crop of pigweed, dock, and net- 

 tles destined, that (ills up the space tliey call the "garden?" 

 And look too at those wide, unsightly thickets of elm, and 

 sumach, and briers, and chokecherry, that mark the lines of 

 every fence 1 



"Approach the house, built in the road, to be co7ivenient, 

 and save land! Two stories and a wing, and every blind 

 shut close as a miser's fist, without a tree, or shrub, or flower 



to break the air of barrenness and desolaiion around it. 



There it stands, white, glaring and gliastly as a pyramid of 

 bones in the desert. Mount the unfrequented door-stone, 

 grown over with vile weeds, and knock till your knuckles 

 are sore. It is a beautiful, moonlight October evenino- ; and 

 as you stand upon that stone, a ringing laugh comes from the 

 rear, and satisfies you that somelxidy lives there. Pass now 

 around to tlie rear ; but hold your nose when you come 

 within range of the piggery, and" have a care that you don't 

 get swamped in the neighborhood of the sink-spout. Enter 

 the kitchen. Ha ! here they are all alive, and here they live 

 all together. The kitchen is the kitchen, the dining-room, 

 tiie sitting-room, the room of all work. Here father sus with 

 his hat on, and in his slu'it sleeves. Around him are big 

 boys and hired men, some with hats, and some with coats, 

 and some with neither. The boys are busy shelling corn 

 for samp ; the hired men are scraping whip stocks and whit- 

 tling how pins, throwing every now and then a sheep's eye 

 and a jest at the girls, who. with their mother, are dni/tg up 

 the house-work. The younger fry are building cob-houses, 

 parching corn, and burning their fingers. JXot a book is to 

 be seen, though the winter school has commenced, and the 

 master is going to board there. Privacy is a word of un- 

 known meaning in that family ; and if a son or daughter 

 should borrow a book, it would be almost impossible to read 

 it in that room ; and on no occasion is the front house open- 

 ed, except when "company come to spend the afternoon," 

 or when things are brushed and dusted and "set to rights." 



"Yet these are as honest, as worthy and kind-hearteil peo- 

 ple as you will find anywhere, and are studying out some 

 way of getting their younger children into a better position 

 than they themselves occupy. They are in easy circum- 

 stances, owe nothing, and have money loaned on bond and 

 mortgage, .\fter much consultation, a son is placed at school 

 that he may be fitted to go into a store, or possibly an oflice, 

 to study a profession ; and a daughter is sent away to learn 

 books, and manners, and gentility. On this son or daughter, 

 or both, the hard earnings of years are lavished ; and they 

 are reared up in the belief that whatever smacks of the coun- 

 try is vulgar — that the farmer is necessarily ill-bred, and his 

 c illnig ignoble. ■<• 



■' iNow, will any one say that tliis picture i^ overdrawn ? I 

 think not. But let us see if there is not a ready way to 

 change the whole expression antl character of the picture, 

 almo.-'t without cost or trouble. 1 would point out an easier, 

 happier and more economical way of ed'icatin^r those chil- 

 dren far more thoroughly, while at the same time the minds 

 of th3 parents are expanded, and they an; prepare I to enjoy, 

 in ihe society of their educated children, ihe fruits cf their 

 own early iiid isu-y. 



"And first : let ihe/rowi part of that house be thrown open, 

 and the most convenient, agreeable and pleasant rooai in it 

 be selected as \.\\e family room. Let iis doors be e. er jpcii ; 

 and when the work of the kitchen is completed, let m ?ihirs 

 and daughters be found there with their appropriate work. — 



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