'6o CARROTS, MANGOLDS AND SUGAR BEETS. 



per cent. Merchants don't do so foolish a thing as to put 

 their earnings into Savings Banks. No ; they invest in their 

 business and so keep it and its money making capacity un- 

 der their own control ; when will farmers be as wise and be- 

 come their own bankers? Let me remark that the farmer 

 who is so wise as to attempt to get the most from his land 

 will do well to follow Prof. Voelcker's advice and drill in four 

 or five hundred weight of some good phosphate, to the acre, 

 in place of the same value in stable manure. 



In the above estimates of the value of Mangolds we have 

 assumed that the farmer sold his crop. Now it is true of this 

 as of every other crop that the farmer can use on his prem- 

 ises, that it is of more value to him than the general market 

 price indicates. 



Under this head an intelligent farmer of large experi- 

 ence writes : — 



"From experiments made in feeding bee.ts, their practi- 

 cal value has been made to range from 13 to 20 cents per 

 bushel, with hay at twenty dollars per ton. An exact esti- 

 mate of the practical value of beets for cattle food, is a dif- 

 ficult matter, as it is now, and ever will be, hid from mortal 

 ken. The improved condition of the cow, (when fed to 

 cows during the winter,) her increased usefulness during the 

 entire season, her lessened liability to sickness and disease 

 which high feeding with any one of the different kinds of 

 grain induces, her lengthened lease of life, her evident satis- 

 faction and perfect contentment, which is so plainly mani- 

 fested while eating her daily ration of roots, are each and 

 every one legitimate items to be taken into the account in 

 estimating the practical, the actual value of beets as food for 

 dairy stock. 



"After carefully looking at the subject in all its bear- 

 ings, so far as my experience has given me opportunity to 

 do so, I have come to the conclusion that beets for cattle 



