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crop for food. So far as the roots raised to the acre, I have had 
some little experience in reference to that, and have raised both of 
the Belgium and the yellow carrot as many bushels to the acre as 
I have been able to raise of either of these sugar-beets, Lane’s Im¬ 
perial sugar-beet and the white sugar-beet. I raised this year from 
eight to nine hundred bushels to the acre of each of these varieties 
of beets, and of carrots I raised as much. I know if you leave it 
to the animals they will prefer the carrots. I know I left it to my 
hogs. I took out from my cellar beets and carrots and threw them 
down where the hogs might eat them. The3 r will eat the carrots 
with great avidity, and then will look up to see if you have more. 
If they find you have not, they will reluctantly go at the beets. 
I never got them to eat rutabagas when I was insight; they looked 
for more carrots or beets. They always resolutely refused to take 
them in my presence. 
I am satisfied, for fattening purposes, the carrot is far ahead of the 
other roots. When you come to take into consideration the amount 
of roots, which is an important element, I have raised the giant 
mangels which yielded last year nearly sixteen hundred bushels to 
the acre, nearly double that I could get from any other root; they 
are a coarse root, too coarse for table-use. I exhibited them at the 
county fair. People would say, are those good for anything? And I 
would take a jack-knife and cut out a piece and you could not tell 
the difference between the taste of them and the sugar-beet. When 
you come to take into consideration the fact that you have twice 
the bulk, it would be more economical in raising it. It was certain¬ 
ly more economical in gathering. They grew a foot or fourteen 
inches above the ground. You go along with a knife and trim off 
the leaves. Passing along between the rows, it looks like a cedar 
swamp, an impassable barrier of stumps standing. Then we drove 
along by the side and picked them up and put them in the wagon. 
We do not stop to dig the mangles. We can load them as fast as 
we can drive along, while with the sugar-beet we had to previously 
dig them, either with a spade or fork. With carrots we could 
use the plow in digging. In digging the mangel, the whiffietrees 
would tip them over. The sugar-beet stands up out of the ground. 
We get along very easily with the carrot, by runing a furrow close 
to the row of roots, and then tipping them out. A man will run 
the land-side of the plow next to the roots, so he does not have to 
