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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. | 
May | 
thought that the erie ei lime contained in those 
soils was one of the substances which tended to this re- 
but the cacy cause of i the properties in question 
ieved, been yet fully ascertained: they 
sult ; 
of 
et fro e growers in that neighbour hoo 
weight ; wi e he et 3 arge cattle. 
feeding v Mn t pure a hig Apr ice 
roots that were fin sisted the sales yellowish. white in Ae 
and about $ bs. i in weight.—Mr. Soar stated that, 
N ie ot unication to 
0 lies Silesian Beet, | n 
had pid a visit to the Randall's Park 
it, on the eee 15 derive its chief nourishment from 
the atmo osphere, and at spe sere time to yield a more 
valuable produce in the 
ConTINENTAL 1 on Beer CULTIVATION.— 
jas the E agne moment, when Beet —— is engaging 
much attention, it may be interesting se sage the 
pas of distinguished French and German writers, 
on ~~ ee — with this crop to which refer- 
e has been made s discussion. With this view, 
the following ‘passages — been selected = recai 
mes English fi guag r respect- 
—— 
DouzasLz.— Among those plants which are cultivated under 
the name of forage aoe be root * * — 5 is unde- 
an equal space of land double the weight of crop that can be 
er te 3 = reget itis A 3 in 3 tad 
ritive atoes th 
8 
t the produce per aere obtained last y as 3 
16 ewt. ; his crop of Mangolds having ree 39 tons 13 
cwt. The 
land on which the Beet w appeared 
to be of a good ter, be at the time of 
Mr. esden’s visit a very promising plant of Wheat, 
and was stated to have h 0 n it for four 
M 
—— to amt — in its raw state —— 2 — any 
injuricus effects or satiat ing the animals. It succeeds in 
every kind of soil, even in those of very. moderate fertility, 
The frequent 
urn of the crop over the same ground does not diminish the 
amount of its — and it adapts pn yl hears —— 
facility to the efficiency and economy that on th 
ployment of improved implements. Finally. ie facility with 
which the roots are 3 and preserved —ç —— use, 
enables the rearer of stock to depend upon it, well- 
assured basis, for the nourishment of his anim deni —— eight 
h furnishes an 
sugar; but have not yet been able from ur 
starch : : a circumstance whic able from sugar 
in 
— 
of h ach according 
time when it ground in sA 
is drawn out rae the 
wt moved too late it gives 
It is remarkable th 
e Beet- t-root indicates, Scoring 1 a 
of the soil and the nature of the manure a appl 
om = whichin Beet — particu - 
ich o clay soils are not es N 
amount of 
vol dye to o 
srera Mek matter 3 t 
give a great roduce 
case contain but little . 
g often 
months of —9 Th echa 
. year, e introduction of Beet culture into 
se es and gave but acy weight — acre, | farm husban ndry wit accordin ngly 1505 m produce that twofold ed —— — me e ea derubly diminished wien tt 5 
namely, m 15 to 18 tons; but that since he had put! every well-directed effort of cultivation | vember, and Papai i allised 
his gave a rich yield of cryst: 
manuring matter further” off the Beet crop, he had os n Tend, namely, eae ng the live stocke them maen worked up Hyer y were found ontain 30 per ee 
1 ` 8 ugar, ebruary 50 per cent. less, a March 
fine roots of a t adi t per, 2 * Tnaxn (1810).—Mangold Wurzel, Burgundy Beet, Thick Beet, | scarcely a single remaining traco of that su = an ob. 
is circumstance as a — v &c., of the Germans; Kaise de disette, or root of s ity or | vious proof that during ti t in 
apart, and es 
and he thought the ng mage ge in value per ton h 
i r the 5 must 
eens: — who, like himself, 
— 2 Xr. e 
unce 
wished the derstand that there was n 
novelty in Srs Mossi of Beet, sd had been common in mihó | 
ties some few years ago, when 1 
species, as 
e indefinito, — 10 to — establishment of as 
I belie lth 
dearth by a 7 
of the — and 
© peri 
vancing spring a 8 goes on in their elem 
ich the 
the t too unimportant, roy in my op 
00 
cific 1 
k by 
t and the white — er indivi 
established to have themse ai 
— is a sub. varie 
unt of 2 it will ‘i 
— if the — pulp — — two hours 
oduce much e 
into the press, though it may y pro 
very — e ee sugar 
—— —— 43) There exists a gna — by . 
t 
— — ‘obtained. The Toitoi, — * 8 
ties cultivated in e oe they are bate place Se 
of their richness in saccharine matter. white Beet of 
Silesia. Pear-shaped, elongated. It is ir * of all. It 
generally gives a juice, which is at the same time the 
and the densest, an d conseque ently the We, 5 work. There 
ty o 
appreciated in Pruss . The yellow Beet ‘of e 
This variety can only be ‘cultivated in deep . — yeep 
3 2 sugar 
already 
y Fr 
seeds of any one single piat ——— will nie f in 
gy pts $ seg — wholly red, or the hig od te or 
t e pale re 
d | eircumarances, 8 to the 2 — ST and * 8 
uce; on w t it is 5 — 
quently cultivated for cattle feeding. — vari 1 
divided into two sub-varietie 
d; 
were in progress for the establishment of a Beet. su 
man 
a gron ater 
himself 
er | siderable influence in — 2 the effect; fi 
6 Being sion, I divided with a p a N 
its growth to draw its bulb o 
I have visite, indeed, to believe, from my oon: — ri 
that this tendency rests partly with the kind of Beet grown; 
but I the soil itself has certainty a con. | fe 
end a portion of seed which I 
— 
my case gave E whose 
ground, while 
ed | ey con- u. 5 el pn p such ci pon t on the same land for g. x one Mea peter e 
he superiority of the o range es once they | prefer dultivating the ar kind in Geop soll K pii > uirai — hee ages prn for ie pa dee 
stated yielded a larger bulk of root. and in den sti ; y its cultivation wi a f gs, which 
a y t summers position it will less injured by the 3 e of too recen foron a 
a ter 8 of sugar. — the bulbs autumnal frosts. The yellow and white sugar Beets have the of t cause them to —— ark ought to 
then placed before Council, itmi mer peen infi advantage of being more solid, and in some degree more hardy | to — in p — he n ot the manala- 
g y be inferred | for the 
that had “ed land diili — — j 3 ng frost; Ae ert ge L on account of the — gtd a part of the po tae on e fais however, — 
n 4 
table matter, from the number of tap-roots fi ved | Assured by s all those who ha ed —— —— nd bar babe utest * 2 de taken oe Re 
at their base, a cir ce which it the subject is found to be the case, T are, accordingly, | Beet root is al found to be subject t 125 both in 
3 was well known gly, | Beet root is always th 
xhaustion +, nom universally prefe the manufacture of sugar a ose its sacchar 
e of the land. No rule s and leo fi gar and | less considerable, and 
down for the exact i nired P, haps also for the distillation of brandy ; but for quantity and quilt, in proporti 
requi: sugar Beet or ical pu not, on account of those qualities, | One process only can prevent these serious 0 G 
old under different circum — T to be pisss ia n com with those red varie i p the bulbs 45. 
ms e noble 0 much — ery of red varieties which yield | and it is that of immediately drying ready made on this 
1 at Mount — in Ireland, a small ev. —— sott whtsiy — — — be grown in crop is taken up. Many experiments 1 ue, and Peligo’ 
of a mo sweet nature manuring matter; but in sandy soiis, ngly seasoned with | point by M M. Schutzenbach, de — day immensi 1 
Bia Ma he had ever tasted in an — 1 not fallen during t od of vegetation. the a Tain has | lead to the hope that agriculture w alised in pen iy, 
m eg y egetable produc- e tation, the bulbs will advantages that have hitherto only been re grower, and 
tion. ground for Mangold or ts was prepared Shee wi small; and in light humus solis, lying low and moist t-root dried at little expense to the me the subject of 
in November, the long or short manure laid on it in| cao Ibe watery and b ky, but inwardly hollow, and scarcely | vered into the markets like corn, may become at conveniet 
winter, and th d on it in capable of being rescued from — omposition, Th d nch of industrial commerce © gars at 
, and the whole ploughed in the sori therefore, most generail . The soil, | an extended bra of in duction 
hiat ug spring. adapted for the cultivation of Beet is | times and — and thus lead to the prođu? sises a sensible 
—Captain Stanley e ked that it would give him e y ee ct loam, in which, almost wi hout exc: ption, | very low — If the age of the roots ex atter which they 
pleasure to procure supplies of the small Beet seed from that's ery ns much solidity, Accordingly, I make ita infl ver the proportion of saccharine migre in the 0 
Magdeburg for any of the members of the Society | lero dom the more. envier soiis, conan, the crewmotnnces of dryness o lata in 
residing in Ireland.— Colonel Challoner could The y 5 Ta af go on pared i inde ay een obser ati Bet 
on poor „that bear nothing else, as good | 9281, man 1, wheth e manure be specially. Mamieu de Dombasle, that the density of the zu ge egen 
' Mathieu de Dombasle, that the density of. to the 
—— as anybody could; but if the Sil i Beet, lg ee —— ty rich fn the soil, after from che same piece of lan increases senaid i a fem dais thy 
which had Mr. : e must be well incor- of dryness, and on the other han Pi The differe?’ 
* Se 2 — 5 sags be h the soil by et ge least a eg N The be sail has posers Porat Br 253 in light gravely og 
ane D ield planted or less considerable i y b. he differencen © Ter 
at dy lands. He asked sowa on ridge i d a great — which easily los humidi t ing fac 
3 832 ch easily lore their hum: 3 apo 
on his opinion on this point, being so well acquainted | very muen pr ag tthe t parts of the Beet-root vary | “stant for all 9 eee i api te feet 
was with the different th : and Cron; those bulbs, for instance, that urg put spouted! aote ouai nat te surf faco 0 5 i sane 
* treet — taking place at the surface 
and the tions required for their inore, ofte ain twenty times as much nitre as t i 
cultivated und e as those | of the sun’s r must n whine 
suecessful cultivation. Mr. Fisher Hobbs re lie loam bolls wiati dinary circumstances. The bulbs grown in — of the liquid s —.— in the w D orep 
p that y —— ve not been fresh} t . 
the Si Det was lable to f. roots that would rally found to yield the greatest —— . radicles —— 1 the 80 , en ire 
. r, sace loss occasione t 
13332 een ts * 70 great object in| De Canpour (1882), With the exception o n 8 Tno soil. mona 4 vat ouar of Mae et 
> culti —— p them Tom | which sugar — — in a crystallised state this 88 rn 7 bee. considerably in 8 when ome 
‘ing those tap-roots, which abstracted the chief present in the cells of plants in a liquid form; and it is cve the size of the bulb than it was 
amount from the soil. Formerly he had | verthz of remark, that in tbem it devel int it is oven | the bulb in this state is more wA pets lt 
to take his with forks, on ó tofth Bier with h singular , Thus many keeda ty or destroys itsoit influence of extreme wisest ties of yE tE Wen 1005 
iito Beet wi „ accoun of the attach- | as ea, inclu — within them before maturity or instance, Korpe (1845).—There a 9 mir colour, the She or cleat — 
Š w netration of these E me a thie be Ja saccharine — — distinguished y we choose out of : 
i A i coming ripe, is transformed into and their size. For cattle feeding, u gro bigh O oqo 
had now only one bulb, with ane pe: and. ‘this pareha becomes saccharine matter on | the yellow, or the white Beti Fee den a alg BE 
ce whic Bering! bj of the seeds, Many other kinds of germ H sidera! denten res 
55 e soil, but — — have ekara succeeded aan ae nd chemists 2 adapt ted fo them. Fors a J skin, whic? 7 7 
starch into | whiro Bi Beet, or that with EEA 
„it gives q 
s the preceding, 3. Ther 
8 to k — R 
in proportion to th: would render the extraction of 
laser tod costly. The culture of the Beet is be object 1 
most minute attention of the growers, who, a 
the land from three to five ploughi 
they pass the roller and the harrow, un has * 
„ perfectly broken. Care also is taken that the e 
immediately precede the sowing; for it has en — 
tained that if land is to be well red, the e, We 
t at least have been fully prepared and well ride 
— equally acquired the pir fae tha — jet ill adapted 
for 2 purposes of sugar m anufaotur wat p eee 
near * nitre than sachet none occasion baie 
ng the Beet roots, in e of thelr having ine asd ceiling. 
a room containing much old plaster on the walls according © 
The seed amager prom, in mene — or — weeks, plant is 
the moisture of the lan wo 175 he young plant inti 
tacked by 2 insect, which “dee the young also suffer 
he day; the 
en th destructive in the ı a. Ai + na farmers bave grown 
successively, without ad 
alternate 
he ravages of wh S. Ma 
is very much 
amenore 
