Nitrate of the yard dung is less intensive in its effects because it has 

 Soda for j ost a great part of the active constituents, circumstances, 

 Sugar-Beets u i r T i_- L 



- which, or course, 1 cannot discuss here, but which represent 



ao the most important technical questions in connection with 

 agriculture which is before us at the present day. Now, 

 sheep dung is less suitable for beets, because it contains too 

 many readily assimilable combinations of Nitrogen, and the 

 only possibility of with certainty rendering beets poor in 

 sugar lies in applying to them a manure which contains 

 combinations too rich in Nitrogen. And this would happen 

 if sheep dung were used. 

 Good Effects ^ ut as re S ar< ^ s farm-yard manure in general. 



of Application. In the ^ rst P lac the effect . of * c a PP lic u a - 

 tion or farm-yard manure is to loosen the 



soil ; the formation of carbonic acid, in connection with the 

 formation of humus, brings about many useful changes ; 

 and lastly, in a dry year, the beets root much more easily 

 in a field dressed with farm-yard manure. Therefore, both 

 in its chemical and its mechanical effects, the application of 

 farm-yard manure is of extreme advantage to the sugar-beet, 

 always subject to the reservation already mentioned, and 

 also to the further condition, which also tends to the interest 

 of the grower himself, that the farm-yard manure has been 

 deeply ploughed under in the previous autumn. To dress 

 sugar-beets with farm-yard manure in the spring, may, in 

 certain circumstances, be to poison them ; for the period of 

 drought which usually, at least with us, sets in soon after 

 the tillage, and which frequently fills the heart of the farmer 

 with anxious fears for the result of the harvest, causes the 

 beets to surfer much during their early growth from defi- 

 ciency of moisture. This danger would be greatly increased 

 if the soil had been rendered too loose by farm-yard manure 

 being ploughed under in the spring, nor would the peril to 

 the development of the beets be obviated in a sufficient 

 manner even by the use of the heavy roller. 



// is y therefore, wholly to the interest of the farmer to 

 plough under the farm-yard manure in the autumn. But, 

 gentlemen, you who wish to grow beets, bear well in mind 

 the fact that in colder situations the application of farm-yard 

 manure is of still greater advantage than in warmer climatic 

 conditions, and co-operate accordingly with the sugar 

 factories,which freely allow you to employ farm-yard manure 



