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•the condition of quality will so far enter into our consideration 

 that we shall grow the turnip and long blood beet 'o feed to 

 «tock. By planting early in the season in rich soil and thin- 

 ing to a foot apart, a growth of from ten to tvvelve pounds can 

 he attained, and I have had isolated specimens weigh over 

 twenty pounds. While the Mangel Wurzel affords us but lit- 

 tle else than water, the common beet is a saccharine veg- 

 etable, and the sugar, besides, improving the quality of the 

 vnilk, adds fat to the animal. Let me here make a seedsman's 

 suggestion to my brother farmers, — when you see Sugar 

 Beets, or White Sugar Beets advertised in catalogues, remem- 

 ber it means a variety of Mangold Wurzel, used largely i^ 

 ■Europe for the manufacture of sugar — preferred to other 

 sorts because it has but little coloring matter in its composition, 

 and utterly worthless for table use. 



As an early, short top, the Early Flat is desirable, while 

 for a handsome round beet, excellent for the family, or the 

 market, Deming's is an acquisition. Simon's Early is a favor- 

 ite with the Philadelphia marketmen. The half long varieties, 

 such as Henderson's, Pine Apple, Castelnandary and Crapan- 

 dine, are rather small in size, but of excellent equality. 



In Mangold Wurzels, what we want, is size and quality, 

 though as ordinarily grown, have in view quantity only. If 

 the variety of Mangold Wurzel, alluded to above, had no 

 more sweetness in it as grown in Europe, that most of those 

 fed to our milch cows, " the bottoni would be knocked out" of 

 their sugar enterprise in a single season. Let the experiment 

 be tried of growing under the same condition, a piece of Man- 

 golds, one on high and one on low land When the crop is 

 gathered, those on the low land may be larger, but those on 

 the upland Avill be sweeter. If the farmer is only desirous of 

 increasing the quuntily of milk, he will feed Mangolds from 

 low land ; if he has regard also to the condition of his ani- 

 mals, he will feed mangolds grown on upland, and I will add 

 if he aims at producing butter, he will feed carrots rather than 

 mangolds. I know of no more common error in dairy mat- 



