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ItED BEET RECOMMENDED FOR CATTLl?* 



Other proper- 

 ties uf it. 



ildvantageous 

 for feeding cat- 

 tte. 



White beet in- 

 jiu res the milk: 



the red beet 

 jespisoycs it. 



Tlfc IcaTCS 

 good fodder. 



A. crop to be 

 (fepeiided on* 



May be sow a 

 am any time. 



5ind no imect 

 ^a^UTCs- it. 



Beside this essential point» which cannot be attained fronn 

 local difficulties, and which may not exist in many other 

 countries, the principal properties of the beet are those of 

 being nourishing, emollient, cooling, laxative, &c. 



Supposing it to be cultivated only for feeding stock, par- 

 ticularly cows, in winter and in summer, it deserves in every 

 respect to be preferred to most plants both for the root and 

 leaf. Though the white beet is of pretty extensive use, and 

 much cultivated, it cannot in any respect be compared with 

 the red. It is neither so firm aor so sweet ; and we find by 

 experience, that the inilk of cows fed some time with it loses 

 its sweetness, and becomes bitter. Besides, it can scarcely 

 be kept through the winter, as it soon grows rotten. 



The red beet on the contrary is firm, sweet, and but in a 

 moderate degree watery. It is at least as nutritious as the 

 turnip cabbage, and imparts to the milk a pleasing sweetness, 

 which continues as long as the cow is fed on it. It keeps 

 very well through the winter, either in cellars or in pits, pro- 

 vided it be not put in wet ; and is as fresh when taken out 

 in the spring as it was when laid up. They who cultivate 

 both sorts, therefore, should use the white in the fall, and 

 keep the red for thes|)ring. 



The leaves of the red beet, which may be gathered in the 

 middle of July, the time of sowing the white beet only^ is ex- 

 cellent fodder, particularly for horned cattle and pigs. It is 

 true however, that the leaves cannot be thus gathered but at 

 the expense of the roots. 



It is also indisputable, that the red beet is one of the roots 

 that succeed almost always. It has few enemies, and a good 

 crop may always be depended on, provided the ground has 

 been well tilled and prepared, and the seed properly sown. 



There is no season amiss for sowing the red beet. It may 

 be sown as early as you please in spring, or even in autumn ; 

 for the first leaves which in most other plants are very ten- 

 der, are able to stand the cold winds of spring. No insect 

 can hurt them ; and while the turnip, the turnip cabbage, 

 the cabbage, &c., are destroyed by the leaflice, the red beet 

 grows astonishingly : and when in autumn the leaves of those 

 plants are devoured by caterpillars, none are seen on the red 

 l>€et, 



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