18 BULLETIN 1345, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BETA VULGARIS L. 
The sugar beet is a member of the same botanical family as the 
saltbushes. Sugar beets, grown in many parts of the United States 
and cultivated on irrigated lands in certain parts of the arid region, 
produce as a by- product forage in the form of the tops, which are 
cut off the plants when the crop is gathered. 
A few of the chemical analyses of sugar-beet forage made by the 
agricultural experiment stations are recorded here. 
Composition (water-free basis) 
Mois- i - 
ae ture Koh Ether | Crude Se P 
As ; a gen-free rotein 
extract | fiber each 
Per cent | Per cent | Per cent | Per cent | Per cent | Per cent 
imediand (30) 228 Ass PRS? Oe 88. 8 2058 5. 4 22.4 22nd 24.6 
ia nsast@) 2s. 2 te ee ee eee 87.9 16. 2 2.0 8.8 53. 5 19.5 
ING via Gan (29) Cie eae ae en coma fee ete tas 88. 0 19. 0 3.9 8.4 63. 2 5.5 
IR) Qe SE) 2 ee Sia ee 88. 9 PME 3.6 8.6 47.7 18. 4 
1 D Yo} sean! eee > SS Oe eee US year eae a 88. 7 See 1.9 8.5 51.4 20.5 
@alifornia G6) ite. ees ee ee fea 5.4 =3 11.9 67.5 14.9 
Anrerapen) LIRTiRb Ss MBy I EAS 88. 2 | 17.6 | 2.9 11.4 50.9 17.2 
Beet tops, consisting of a bunch of large leaves and a small part 
of the beet, are eaten freely by both cattle and sheep. In the arid 
region it is not uncommon to sell the beet tops to owners of range 
stock. The tops dry more or less, but the stock eat them dry or 
green. 
CHENOPODIUM ALBUM L. 
Lamb’s-quarter, a well-known annual garden and field weed 
throughout the United States, originally introduced from Europe, 
is one of about 50 species of a genus of herbaceous plants that have 
been given a name derived from the Greek, meaning “ goosefoot,” 
because of the shape of the leaves of certain species. The species 
album is sometimes called pigweed, and in the Southwest quelite, 
because of its wide use as greens. 
Lamb’s-quarter is widely scattered over the western grazing lands, 
especially where the native plants have been eaten or tramped out, in 
places where a moderate amount of rain falls during the growing 
season. In the northern part of the Great Plains and Great Basin 
area or in mountain parks or valleys in the Southwestern States, 
wherever the ground is denuded, this weed usually appears. Once 
introduced, its “seed habits are such that nothing but vigorous peren- 
nials will drive it out. Its adaptation to the life of a weed in culti- 
vated ground and its abundant production of small seeds have been 
important factors in its spread. 
Department sample 10907 (G) consists of a whole plant in ‘early 
maturity, with a mass of seed, cut close to the ground, near Green 
River, Wyo., September 1, 1914. 
