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a high- feeding value. They are worth almost as much 
pound for pound as the beets themselves. 
The tops are good feed for all classes of farm animals. 
They may be fed at once as soon as harvested or put in a silo 
and fed through the winter. The past two years, on the 
College Farm, there has been stock enough to eat them as 
fast as gathered. They have been fed to breeding sheep 
and to cows, being hauled from the field and fed in racks. 
Some beet growers wait until the crop is all harvested and 
then turn the stock into the field to eat up the tops and 
leaves. This saves some labor but is wasteful of fodder. 
