ROOT CULTURE. 83 



183 bush, mercnantable potatoes, at 50 cts. $191 50 

 97 do. small do., at 12$ cents . . 9 62* 



$201 12 j 



Deduct charges 54 00 



Nett profits $147 12J 



At 2s. per bushel, the profit would have been about . 52 00 



In these estimates the whole manure is charged 

 to the crops. Deducting one half, as is customary, 

 the profits would have been $9 37 1-2 more in each 

 experiment. 



u. BEETS, 



Of whatever variety, whether for sugar or for 

 cattle, require the same soil and the same culture. 

 The mangold-wurzcl or scarcity-beet has hitherto 

 been the principal kind cultivated for farm-stock, 

 though the blood-beet occasionally, and th" sugar- 

 beet recently, have both been grown for this 9 irpose. 



Beets, like all tap-rooted plants, require a deep 

 soil, as it seldom happens that the roots enlarge 

 much in the subsoil, or below where the earth is 

 moved by the plough or spade. Moist loams, either 

 of sand or clay, suit them best ; though they grow 

 on all soils not wet or very stiff, provided they are 

 made rich and mellow. The mangold-wurzel will 

 do better on poor lands than the other sorts. 



The deeper the ground is ploughed, the more thor- 

 oughly it is pulverized, and the more intimately the 

 manure is incorporated with the earthy matters, the 

 better is the prospect of a crop. Pulverization is 

 particularly necessary to the germination of the seed. 

 The harrow should therefore be efficiently used be- 

 fore the seed is deposited in the soil. 



The manner of planting the beet, of whatever kind, 

 is in drills, which may be done either by the drill- 

 barrow or the hand. Mangold-wurzel should be in 

 rows twenty-seven to thirty inches apart, and the 



