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their milk. The leaves are equally valuable in the fattening of cat- 
tle and of sheep. ‘ 
Beets should be gathered when the weather is dry, and put away 
in a dry state, and when prepared for cattle, they must be cut up fine 
with some suitable instrument, and may be given either alone or 
mixed with cut straw or hay. 
They are equally fit for horses, with the precaution of adding a 
variety of cut straw and hay well mixed together. This food will 
preserve them strong and vigorous, as is well ascertained in Germa- 
ny, where beets are much cultivated for this purpose. 
For the fattening of a Bullock forty or fifty lbs. of beets per day, 
mixed with five or six lbs. of dry fodder will accomplish the object 
in the space of four months. Care must be taken to give it in three 
separations, since by feeding often and in small quantities at a time, 
the same amount of nutriment goes farther. 
Finally, by facilitating the means of stable fattening, throughout 
the year, beets furnish a very important addition to this means s of 
augmenting the mass of valuable manure. 
They may serve also, on occasion, for the food of men ;—they 
are less subject to the vicissitudes of seasons than turnips, and their 
leaves supply, for several months, an excellent food for cattle. The 
root may be easily preserved during eight months of the year, 
they give to milk an excellent taste and quality, cattle eat them with 
avidity, and are never tired of them. 'Theculture of no forage root 
can compare with that of the beet in the number of advantages which 
the industrious cultivator may derive from them. We cannot too 
strongly recommend the introduction of them into places where they 
are not already in vogue.—Idem. 
3. Feeding of cattle.—It is stated by M. Dubuc, President of the 
Agricultural Society of Rouen, that three measures of oats, pounded 
or broken up (concassées) and moistened, are equivalent, as aliment, 
to four measures given in the grain. 
It is observed, also, that four parts of different kinds of forage, 
coarsely chopped, and deprived of dust, will go as far as five parts 
of the same forage given entire and separately. 
There existsin Paris an establishment where mixtures of food are ~ 
prepared, on this principle, for horses; it is that of M. Payen. 
The kinds most generally mixed are clover, and lucerne. They 
are then cut up, so that the horses are obliged to chew and masti- 
cate them in the most perfect manner. 
