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Plant food taken up by mangels and sugar-beets 73 



Sugar-beets compared with rutabagas; Comparative analyses of a rutabaga 

 and a sugar-beet 74 



Efforts to create a semi-sugar-beet; Comparative yields of forage and 

 semi-sugar-beets 75 



Green corn fodder vs. sugar-beets for cattle feed; Green corn ensilage; 

 Exhausting effects of green corn upon the soil 76 



Plant food absorbed by one ton of sugar-beets and green corn; Plant food 

 absorbed to the acre by ten tons of beets and twenty tons of green com. 77 



Large and small beets in cattle feeding 78 



Sugar-beets more profitable than clover-hay for cattle-fodder; Experi- 

 ments in feeding beets to cows and sheep in the United States; Prelimi- 

 nary remarks; Great changes in the existing dairying process by the 

 introduction of the sugar-beet 79 



Dr. Goessmann on sugar-beet feeding; Statement emanating from the 

 Pennsylvania State College Experiment Station 80 



Comparison of corn silage and roots for milch cows 81 



Corn silage and clover silage vs. sugar-beets; Wisconsin experiments in 

 feeding sheep 82 



Relative value of silage and field beets in the production of milk; Experi- 

 ments at the Ohio experiment station 83 



Silage r.s. beets, showing teed refused 84 



Total milk produced, and gain and loss in weight 85 



Average daily yield of milk with and without beets in ration. Ohio 

 station. 1890.. 86 



Cost of harvesting, siloing, etc., per acre of beets and of corn; Consump- 

 tion of dry matter by cows fed on beets and on silage; The problem of 

 fattening an i mals 87 



Comments on the Ohio experiments; Comparison between potatoes and 

 beets 88 



Results obtained by feeding a short-horn cow and a Holstein heifer on 

 beets; Results obtained by feeding a short-horn cow and a Jersey heifer 

 on potatoes 89 



Difference between beet butter and potato butter; Other experiments to 

 determine the value of potatoes and roots for fattening lambs 90 



Comparative results obtained by feeding lambs with potatoes, beets and 

 mangels; Results of experiments made to determine the relative value 

 of sugar-beets for steers and sheep 91 



Comparative feeding value of silage, beets and mangels for cows; Experi- 

 ments to determine the effect of different rations in fattening lambs 92 



Comparison of cost of grain per 100 Ibs. with roots, and without roots; 

 Comparative experiments with siloed cossettes and forage beets; Feed- 

 ing sugar-beet leaves and tops; Preliminary remarks 93 



Composition of beet leaves and tops according to Dr. Herzfeld 94 



Beet -leaf stripping 95 



