30 CARROTS, MANGOLDS AND SUGAR BEETS. 



birth to our cheese factory system ; the inducement in this 

 case being the home market that the sugar factory would af- 

 ford for unlimited areas of beets, while the refuse pulp would 

 enable them to increase greatly the number of their neat 

 stock, to the advantage of the manure pile and enlargement 

 of their area of tillage. 



THE SOIL AND ITS PREPARATION. 



In the matter of soil, Mangold Wurtzels will accept a 

 greater latitude than any other root ; thriving on every va- 

 riety, all the way from light loam to muck, and from that to 

 as strong a clay as is sufficiently friable for tillage. Muck 

 (properly drained) and a strong loam are best suited to de- 

 velop pounds of crop. Though the crop grown in the light- 

 er soil is not so great, it is much sweeter than when grown 

 on heavy soil, and when extraordinary quantities of manure 

 have been applied, some of the heaviest crops on record have 

 been grown on light loam. The great crop of Mr. Fearing 

 < >f Hingham, of over sixty tons to the acre, was raised on a 

 sandy loam. Some years ago I took a purchaser into the 

 field where two lots of Mangolds were growing ; he selected 

 at once the large roots on the low land. I asked him to 

 taste a slice of those on the upland, when he at once changed 

 his preference. As a rule it will be found that those grown 

 on warm, upland soil are decidedly the sweeter and this fact 

 has an important bearing on the feeding value of the crop. 



If the soil is in good heart for a foot in depth, plough it 

 to that depth before putting on the manure. After putting 

 on the manure, if coarse, it will be well to cut it up with 

 Randall's wheel -harrow before ploughing under. After cross 

 ploughing the manure four or five inches beneath the surface 

 the aim should be to make a good seed bed by getting the | 



ce level and the soil li^ht and fine. On most soils this 



