CARROTS, MANGOLDS AND SUGAR BEETS. 



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■duced to the American public a few years ago, under 

 the name of Lane's Improved American Sugar Beet, is a 

 strain of the Long White Mangold. The improved varieties 

 of Germany and France yield about double the per centage 

 of sugar that is found in the common Mangold, in some 

 crops the proportion 

 being as high as thir- 

 teen per cent. This 

 would make the Sugar 

 Beets of double the 

 value of Mangolds for 

 stock, but unfortu- 

 nately, the roots ru- 

 der like conditions of 

 cultivation, average 

 "but half the weight of 

 Mangolds. 



As this treatise is 

 about roots as food for 

 stock, the cultivation 

 of beet for the manu- 

 facture of sugar is not globe mangold. 

 within its sphere, yet I must express surprise that with the 

 experience of Germany and France to draw from and our 

 own inventive skill and enterprise to add to it, we have not 

 as yet made marked advance in this department of manu- 

 facturing industry. The average percentage of sugar found 

 in analysis of beets grown in this country is exceptional)!}' 

 high. Land free from alkalies, of unbounded fertility, readily 

 accessible, being attainable at almost nominal cost, it is a 

 standing puzzle why we do not follow the example of other 

 countries and raise our own sugar rather than import it. Per- 

 haps the conundrum will be solved yet by some associate 

 enterprise among our farmers, similar to that which gave 



