BEET SEED PRODUCTION IN FRAXCE. 



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By the way of comparison, it is interesting to give 

 Pellet's analyses of old beet seed: 



"Water 14 14 



Futty substances 426 



Str.rch 1.66 



Cellulose ie.3i 



Albuminoids 11,94 



Mineral substances 6.94 



Cortical substances 46.30 



Total 100.00 



Mr. Petermann, who has also given the question 

 of seed utilization some thought, says that it makes 

 very little difference if the seed be of a superior or 

 inferior grade. 



Variety. 



■Water 



Fatty substances 



Raw albuminoids 



Carboiiydrates 



Cellulose 



Mineral substances.. 



Containing pure albuminoids. 



" potassa 



" phospnoric acid. . . 



1.43 



0.72 



It must be noted that the fatty substances in hay 

 are only 2.44, and in beet seed they vary between 4.26 

 and 5.96, or 5.88 in old seed. The same difference 

 exists for nitrogenous and non-nitrogenous substances. 

 In France, excellent results have been obtained by 

 feeding seven pounds old seed flour combined with 

 100 to 170 lbs. beet pulp, and two pounds hay per 

 diem; beeves thus fed increased in weight about 90 lbs. 

 a month. Very encouraging results have also been 

 obtained by forming with old seed a ration for hogs. 



It must, however, be noted that certain precau- 

 tionary measures are necessary; the animals must 

 become gradually accustomed to the stuff; hence, the 

 ration should at first be only one-fourth of what it is 

 to be finally. In the same line of argument, the 

 wastes or residuum, after cleaning beet seed, have 



