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seed per acre. Thus four bushels of seed will plant an 

 acre of ground, and require one ploughing and hoeing, 

 and keep thirty or more hogs from the 1st of November 

 till spring. If our farmers do not pay more attention 

 to this, they certainly are bhnd to their interest. Seed, 

 we presume, can be had quite plenty next spring. — 

 Southern Cultivator. 



[From the Genesee Farmer.] 



SUGAR-BEET. 



The valuable qualities of this root for feeding 

 animals is beginning to be understood ; and we may 

 reasonably expect that its culture will hereafter be very 

 much increased. The common beet and the mangel 

 wurtzel have both been proved valuable roots, but the 

 sugar-beet is much superior to either of the former, as 

 was indeed to have been expected from the greater 

 quantity of saccharine matter it contains. It is culti- 

 vated with as much ease and certainty as the common 

 beet, and, though usually more difficulty has been 

 found in preserving the beet or the carrot than the 

 ruta baga, there is really no more danger of failure 

 where cellars of proper temperature are to be had. For 

 making fine mutton, the sugar-beet is said to be un- 

 rivaled. We find a letter on this subject in the 

 '' Whip," from which we make the following extract, 

 which we are confident is worthy the attention of all 

 those who wish to produce from their flocks meat of the 

 first quality. The writer was an extensive mutton 

 grower for the Philadelphia market, and his mutton, 

 before he commenced using the sugar-beet, had attained 

 a high character ; at last he commenced the use of this 

 root, and he says : 



'' What surprised him most was the rapid manner 

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