COMPARED WITH RUTABAGAS. 



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will accrue will be much greater in one case than in the other. 

 It must he thoroughly understood that we do not recommend 

 high testing beets for cattle-feeding, but on the contrary, a 

 variety containing 10 per cent, sugar rather than the forage 

 types, averaging about 5 per cent. The difference in the total dry 

 substance in the two cases would not be much less than 1,000 

 Ibs. per acre, an amount which means considerable additional 

 money returns. The cost of cultivation for the heavy yield 

 varieties is less than when cultivating in rows nearer together; 

 but this difference is very slight in comparison with the actual 

 advantage gained. At the present time many of the European 

 seed-growing specialists are concentrating their efforts to create 

 what is known as a semi-sugar-beet, possessing certain char- 

 acteristic qualities of a superior and inferior beet. If this 

 problem can be solved the farmer would then have a crop at his 

 disposal which he could for a term of years cultivate and be- 

 come accustomed to, without losing money in awaiting the 

 building of a beet-sugar factory in his vicinity. A well-known 

 agronomist has made some experiments with the new variety 

 in question, the results being as follows: 



COMPARATIVE YIELDS OF FORAGE AND SEMI-SUGAR BEETS. 



YIELD to THE ACRE. 



This means an excess of 3,000 Ibs. in favor of the new variety 

 for dry substance alone. In these special experiments the ex- 

 cessive drought had an important influence on the yield of the 

 forage variety. We consider these facts are of sufficient 

 moment for our leading agricultural stations to give the subject 



