The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-04-19
Importance Of Root Crops.


A writer in the Richmond Farmer, ur-
ges the cultivation of root crops as occupy
i1g leas extent Of land than other crops
and supersediug the necessity of cultivat-
ing extensive fields. The dimunition of
labor, he says renders it more necessary
IN the South, He quotes from the Maine
Board of Agriculture a statement of
crop Of eight hundred bushels of carrots,
or over twenty tons, flom an acre, at cost
of 81 cents per busbel, or about S75 per
acre, aud that the produce of this acre
of carrots was equal to ten acres of oats
Mr.. Curwen, an English farmer, says an
acre of carrots supplies food for working
horses equal to sixteen of oats. Mr.. Cole
man, an English Agricultural Commission
er, mentions farmer who usually obtains
twenty-five Tons of carrots to the sere, and
one farmer al Birkenhead harvested hun
dred tons from three acres. A farmer
near Springfield, Mass, raised in 1859, on
two and half acres of land, $3.50 bushels,
or ninety-five tons, Of mangrels, (beets, }
at 81 cents per bushel, equal 70 191 tons of
hay. Mr.. Loring, of Salem, Mass, raised
on one acre and an eighth, 300 bushels of
beets, at a cost of nine cents per bushel,
equal to twelve tons of hay. Doyle and
others give the average crop il England at
fifteen tons per acre; Swedish turnips,
twenty-eight to thirty tons beets, forty
five tons. The crop varies in the different
counties of England and Scotland. These
wonderful results are obtained by deep
blowing and heavy manuring. What crop
is there that from an acre viii produce
such an amount of valuable and nutritious
food at so reasonable an outlay
The Edinburgh Encyclopedia says the
parsnip is the most valuable aud nutritious
of these roots. In the Southern States the
heat will more. fully develop the saecharine
roots, than the climate of Great Britain o.
the more Northern States of this continent
When the French trade with the tropic
was cut off BY war, Bonaparte introduced
into France the process of making suga
from beets, and now three-fourths of all th
sugar consumed in that empire is mad
from the beet. It is manufactured to tb
same extent in Belgium, and largely i
other European countries. The sugar @
France pays tax to the government Of 81.
cents to the pound, and is sold to the con
: suner at twelve and fourteen cents. Th
: New York Tri5une states that the bee
sugar crop in an uDrefned state in Franc
is worth $50, ,0oO, 600 per annum. This
) journal says ''From what we know {
; the culture 10 France and Belgium, we
r not entertain the slightest doubt that tina
! the beet root sugar manufactured in thi
, country is destined to be most proflabl
3 interest. The only wonder is that it ha
been so long in being developed. It ca
only be accounted for by the fact that v
have had so long a supply of cheap can
/. sugar from Louisiana and the West Indies
But the experience Of France and Hollan
shows that raising sugar from the beet
! both more certain and more profitable tha
raising it from the cane. A company III
der French auspices are engaged in Ii
manufacture of beet sugar ia Illinois, -
seems that they have succeeded in PreserV
d ing the beets in large quantities thrOug
J, winter, and are making an excellent articl
: Of sugar.
+ These facts are colIated only with Il
+ view of calling attention to the gener
}, value Of these root crops. in climates les
b suited to their production than the South
= ern States.
: A correspondent of ens OF our exchar