62 BEETS. 



ches apart in the row when the plants are about three 

 inches high. 



The Blood Turnip will mature sooner than the 

 Long Smooth Blood, and a larger space is devoted to 

 its culture by practical gardeners, who sow it in the 

 Spring for market. For "Winter use, the seed may 

 be sown as late as the 15 th of June ; in fact, the 

 Beets from seed sown at that time will be found 

 more tender in the Winter than those from seed 

 sown earlier. The same is true of the Long Blood 

 Beet. The latter is more popular for market, as 

 well as for table use, during the Winter and Spring 

 months. 



The White Sugar and Mangel Wurtzel are gener- 

 ally cultivated as field-crops for feeding stock in the 

 Winter. When grown for this purpose, the distance 

 between the rows should be from two to two and a 

 half feet, so that the cultivation can be done with 

 horse-tools, instead of with hand-hoes. 



Ground that is in good heart, and well worked 

 by ploughing, harrowing, &c., &c., will yield from 

 twenty to twenty-five tons of Beet-root to the acre, 

 with an application of fifteen or twenty two-horse 

 loads of yard-manure. 



When everything is ready, the surface should be 

 raised into narrow ridges ; that is, with a one-horse 

 plough, commencing at one side of the field, two 

 furrows should be thrown together. A continuous 

 system of back-furrowing is what is wanted. The 

 tops of these ridges are then raked off with an iron 

 rake or hoe, removing any stones, lumps, &c., &c. 



The seed may be sown frojn the 1st to the 15th 



