Cultivation of Beet. 



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Palling and stripping the leaves off 7 

 Filling into carts 

 Driving away 

 Stacking roots in heap 

 Thatching 

 Banking up 



Carting with 3 horses 4 days 

 Carting and loading straw 



£ s. d. 



acres, at 6 0 per acre 2 3 



Total cost 



Cost of taking up and storing per acre • 



Cost per ton about . ..... 



Cost of crop pel' acre. 



Claying, draining (permanent improvements), rent, &c. 

 Two ploughings 

 Two harrowings 

 Clod-rolling 

 Rolling 

 Ridging 



Drilling and rollings 

 Carting and spreading manure 

 Hand-hoeings 

 Horse-hoeing twice 

 Taking and storing the crop 



12 loads farm-yard manure manure, at 6s. per load 

 If cwt. guano ...... 



Total 



0 18 

 0 3 

 0 14 



0 9 



1 9 

 1 9 0 

 0 3 7 



6 



U 



6 

 8 

 0 





11 





£l 



0 



10 



0 



0 



9h 



£ 



s. 



d. 





0 



0 



u 



14 



0 



0 



1 



6 



0 



1 



0 



0 



0 



6 



0 



4 



0 



0 



1 



3 



0 



8 



0 



0 



8 



0 



0 



4 



0 



1 



0 



10 



3 



0 



0 



1 



0 



0 



£9 



3 



1 



Produce^ 



26 tons mangold, at 12s. a ton . . . . 15 12 0 



200 sheep folding on tops 15 days, at \d. per week (per acre) 0 19 Sj 



£16 11 81 



5. Varieties of Beet. 



The varieties of beet are very numerous, and doubtless num- 

 berless new varieties could be produced by hybridizing and other 

 means. Those that are most fjenerallv cultivated for feedinsr 

 cattle are the long red, the long yellow, the red and yellow globe, 

 and the horn-beet, which is closely allied to the long red. 



Experienced beet-growers agree that the globe-beet is better 

 suited for light land, and that the yellow beet may be given to 

 cattle earlier in the season than the red, without producing ill 



