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fodder they would be more valuable than the cutters of 

 straw or of hay ; for these may be eaten without a 

 knife, but who can masticate a three-foot corn-butt ? 

 Cattle make awkward attempts to bite them in two, 

 and sometimes succeed by holding fast one end with 

 the foot, while their gums and under teeth pluck off a 

 portion of the other. They make as hard work of it as 

 men of fifty — not bachelors — do, in 'gnawing an 

 apple : the under help must do the chief business, as the 

 upper set were not procured to labor. 



SUGAR-BEET. 



A CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati Gazette furnishes 

 the following interesting facts, collected by observation, 

 in relation to the culture of the beet : 



" When on a visit to the farm of our enterprising 

 citizen. Lot Pugh, thirty-two miles north of our city, I 

 saw a white sugar-beet, raised from seed imported from 

 France, which measured thirty inches in circumference, 

 and weighed, after being removed from the ground and 

 divested of foreign substances, twenty-two pounds. 

 Although the specimen which was measured and 

 weighed was taken from a field of several acres, still it 

 probably was not the largest, for the greater part of the 

 crop appeared to be of equal magnitude. A mangel- 

 wurzel from the same grounds, and raised from im- 

 ported seed also, measured twenty-five inches in cir- 

 cumference, and weighed sixteen pounds and a half. 

 It must be observed that, as these beets were removed 

 from the earth on the 23d of August, they had not at- 

 tained their full growth. Indeed, it is probable that 

 many of the former may measure three feet in circum- 

 ference, and the latter two and a half, when they are 

 fully grown. 



