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New York AcricutruraL Exprriment STATION. 273 
TRIAL OF BEETS FOR CATTLE FOOD. 
In the same field with the corn and carrot varieties, beets were 
erown for stock with the following result: 
The thinning, weeding and transplanting was done at intervals 
between showers, and was so broken up that no attempt has been 
made to determine the cost of time spent. However, it is safe to 
assert, that the cost of keeping a root crop clean on clay soil, 
under the discouraging conditions of the past season, costs about 
all the crop is worth. 
The notes at the right of the yields give an idea of the differ- 
ence in cost of harvesting. Those noted as deep, requiring to be 
dug, while most of the shallow varieties could be pulled and 
topped much more rapidly. 
The main crop was of Golden Tankard variety, which yielded 
14.4 tons per acre. The whole crop of 1.95 acres yielded at the 
- rate of 15.8 tons, or 526.7 bushels per acre. 
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