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The manager of the farm informed me that he raised 

 fifty tons, actual weight, of beets to the acre, last year, 

 and that his crop is much better the present season. 

 He also said that it required but little more labor to 

 raise fifty tons of beets than fifty bushels of corn ^ while 

 the former was quite as good for horses, much better 

 for cattle, and rather better for stock hogs. He also 

 asserted that suckling calves prefered beets, when 

 properly prepared, to milk. Indeed, I could almost se- 

 lect, from among fifty-six head of Durham cattle, those 

 that had been fed, during the last season, on beets. 

 They were not only fatter, but smoother and better 

 grown, than those that had been kept on other food. 



Although cattle and hogs will eat beets in a raw 

 state, still they are much better when boiled. The 

 apparatus and fixtures used by Mr. Pugh for boiling, or 

 rather steaming, food for three hundred hogs, and forty 

 or fifty cows, with other stock, cost about one hundred 

 and fifty dollars, and consumes a quarter of a cord of 

 wood per day. 



Mr. Pugh had not attempted to make sugar from his 

 beets, but if its manufacture is profitable any where 

 from this article, it would certainly be so here, for no 

 soil can produce a better growth. Two hands can 

 prepare the ground, plant and cultivate five acres of 

 beets in a season, and the product would doubtless 

 yield many tons of saccharine matter." 



[From Bigelow'3 Technology.] 



CEMENTS. 



Limestone. The substances made use of for the 

 uniting medium between bricks, or stones, in building, 

 are denominated cements. The calcareous cements, 

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