worms than the turnip or mta baga — though I incline to think 

 the latter is much more faronred with us than in England in this 

 respect. 



A rapid and early growth of beet is Important — earthing them 

 up is injuriotis— when the plants are two to three inches high, 

 thin out to twelve inches apart. When two or three corae up in 

 a bunch, only one must be left — it will lie down flat at first but 

 will soon recover. When the leaves early in the fall, begin to dry 

 pull them off lor the cows profitably. Those gentlemen wlio cot- 

 tage farm it on a small amount of land, and want a small dairy, 

 ought to cultivate the sugar and mangel-wurtzel beets for their 



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WHITE CLOVER 



Clieese raisers prefer white clover to all other grasses for their 

 purposes. The use of bone on pasture, they say, is to make a 

 sweeter, stronger and more permanent pasture. After the bones 

 had been put on the pasture twelve yeais, the good effect is 

 still visible." 



BOTANICAL LEARNING AS TO BEETS 



By H, M»rG3. 



The learned Dr. Lindley in his Vegetable Kingdom, calls the 

 plants of which the beet is one, Chenopode. As weeds they in- 

 habit all parts of the world, abounding most in extra-tropical re- 

 gions. They are exceedingly common in all the northern parts 

 of Europe and Asia, and are frequent inhabitants of salt marshes. 



Some are used as potherbs — as spinach, English mercury. 

 Garden orach (which is cultivated and used like spinach in some 

 parts of Europe), and chard-beet ; the roots of others form valu- 

 able articles of food, as beet and mangold-wur^el, plants now fa 

 mous as a new sourcci of sugar capable of being produced in 

 Northern countries. 



One of these plants, ohenoiwdium vulvaria or olidum, has an 

 atrocious odour, has a great reputation as an anti-spasmodic and 

 eoimenagogue (good for the menses.) 



