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one is to devote almost the whole breadth to beet ; the other, to 
introduce on the largest half of the land the system of double 
cropping, only in this case our second crop must be common 
turnips. 
It appears to us that, at least in the southern half of England, 
the heaviest and most valuable production will be obtained by 
the former of these practices. Where a well-selected stock of the 
yellow globe beet (and stock is everything with beet) is culti- 
vated with judgment, an enormous produce may be obtained. 
With use of proper means a full plant can always be secured ; 
and with an application of 3 cwt. of guano and 3 cwt. of salt — 
that is at a cost for manure of about 45s. per acre — some 30 
tons per acre of cleaned roots will be grown in an average of 
seasons. In connection with a farmers' club, we have often seen 
this crop weighed, and also swedes ; in each case a quarter of an 
acre of cleaned roots being weighed. We found beet to vary 
from 14 to 44 tons per acre, and swedes from 10 to 25 tons. 
Here there is an enormous advantage on the side of the beet- 
crop, which has also the further advantage of being more 
certain, and, above all, the root will keep nearly all the year 
round. 
A farm of 200 acres managed on this system will be thus 
apportioned : — 
50 acres with wheat. 
50 acres with roots ; thus, beet, 45 acres ; tares, 5 acres. 
50 acres with barley. 
50 acres with clover and peas ; thus, red clover, 25 acres ; 
peas, followed with mustard, 12 acres ; white clover and rye- 
grass, mixed, 13 acres. 
Our provision of herbage-food would then be as follows, 
viz. : — For January, beet ; February, beet ; March, beef.; April, 
beet, clover, and rye-grass ; May, beet, clover, and rye-grass ; 
June, beet, clover, rye-grass, and tares ; July, clover and rye- 
grass : second crop, clover and tares ; August, clover and rye- 
grass : second crop, clover and tares ; September, clover and 
mustard, and stubble feed ; October, clover and mustard, and 
stubble feed; November, mustard and beet; December, beet. 
In the case of good land we draw off from one-half to two- 
thirds of the beet-crop, leaving the rest upon the land where it 
grows to be fed off, as we find that either sheep or lambs may 
safely begin feeding on beet in the beginning of November. 
During this month and the next we feed them off just as they 
stand, as ,we rarely have frost to injure standing beet before 
Christmas. Those required for the next month or two, or for as 
l;)ng as it is prudent to feed on this kind of land (having regard 
to the barley that is to follow and its needful tilth and time of 
