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AMERICAN BEET SUGAR. 55 



This year we are trying some further storage, and have just finished two 

 sluices which have been constructed and inserted on the bare ground, and we ex- 

 pect to store 6000 or 7000 tons of beets in that manner. When the frost comes, 

 it freezes over the surface of the stored beets to a depth of two or three beets, but 

 there is enough vegetable heat generated in the large pile to keep the beets in 

 good condition, and we have never lost a beet yet through frost we are more 

 afraid of the sun's rays than we are of frost. 



WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH GREEN BEETS AND THOSE OF LOW PURITY, AND 

 CONSEQUENTLY UNFIT FOR FACTORY USE. 



SUGAR BEETS AS CATTLE FOOD. C. S. Plum, director of the Purdue, Indi- 

 ana, experiment station, has very commendatory words for the sugar beets in a 

 recent report. While the beets have not more than one-sixth the muscle-forming 

 food of clover hay, yet they have important use in abetting digestion. He says 

 that the practice speaks loudly in favor of beets in winter, combined with dry 

 feed, and that sugar beets take the lead. " They contain more nutriment than 

 mangels, carrots, rutabagas or common turnips." Their sugar, he says, adds to 

 their palatability. For sheep and milch cows they rank high. They regulate 

 the bowels and give an elegant gloss to the skin. At the late dairymen's associa- 

 tion at Compton, more of the feeders favored stock than sugar beets. Prof. Plum 

 rightly states that chemical analysis does not tell the full value of such food. He 

 says that they rank very high in Great Britain, and are valued at from $2 to $2.50 

 per ton in the United States. He says that the feeding experiments at the Purdue 

 station have been very favorable to sugar beets. While in Ohio a comparison 

 was made by feeding silage and field beets to dairy cattle. The beets caused the 

 best gains in weight of cows, size of milk flow and production of butter fats. 

 Sugar beets, unlike turnips, never give any taint or unwholesome flavor to milk 

 or any of its products. 



Prof. Plum recommends slicing and feeding about fifty pounds per day, with a 

 sufficient amount of dry feed. The pulp from the sugar factories is very valuable 

 for dairy stock. Cows eat about 100 pounds each per day with about 15 pounds 

 of dry food. The California experiment station finds that the pulp contains 

 nearly as much of the proteids as does corn silage, and that the feeding value is 

 $2.02 per ton, while corn silage is worth $3.22 per ton. But pulp can be put into 

 the silo with entire success, and with the great number of factories being built, 

 beet pulp as silage must take a prominent place as food for the dairy. 



NOTE. The quantity of beet pulp consumed per head of cattle, is nearer 75 pounds 

 than 100. BD. 



RELIABLE BEET SEED. Sugar beet seed from reliable sources can be ordered 

 from Meyer & Raapke, Omaha, Neb., agents for Klein Wanzleben original. An 

 excellent beet, adapted to the average soil and climate in the United States. 



Vilmorin Andrieux & Company, Paris, France. An exceedingly rich beet. 



Deppe Brothers Earnest Rolker & Son, agents, New York City, N. Y. This 

 well known variety has been very successful in the West. 



There are other reliable seedsmen in Europe, whose seeds we have not yet 

 tested in large quantities for factory supply, 



