Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1873-04-10
American Sugar Beets.

The writer has fed to nine cows, during
the past winter. three bushels of sugar
beets each day, without cutting; three of
the cows were much reduced in the amount
of milk they gave, one of them was milk.
ed but once day.
During the week commencing January
20, they gave in three days, Glib pounds
mise. gross. Chis weight includes the
amount of milk used by two families. }
equalling 1880 pounds milk per week, max
ing 50 IL pounds butter, requiring u
pounds milk GROSS to one pound butter
The were fed with corn stalks, good hay
and meal, and for the week with no roots
For the week commencing February | l.,
the cows were fed as before, except that
they had one third of a bushel each of
roots once day, and they gave in four
days Sii pounds of milk gross equalling
| l417 pounds per week and producing in
seven days 81 l-2 pounds butter. requiring
| 3 30 pounds milk gross for one pound
| butter; difference in amount of milk pro-
duced in two weeks by computation. A.
| pounds; difference in amount OF butter
| produced 3 pounds IN favor of feeding
| roots. All the cows, unless it be " it'll one
exception, have gained in flesh materially
during the winter. | ought. think, state
| that the roots fed in the above trial were
| partially frozen. The amount of hay and
| grain saved by feeding the roots (if any
the writer is unable TO state.
The great error in relation to feeding
| roots is they are too much fed to the eN-
| clu>ion of grain. A fauening OK should
| have one bushel or not over two, per day.
with six or eight quarts of meal. Cows
| should have one-hali bushel per day,
| whether MIXED or not. Calves should
have small quantity per day and a small
! allowance of grain. Carrots. beets. tur-
nips and parsnips may all be raised with
| profit where stock i 10 be fed. For hors-
! e.. carrots are said to be invaluable. The
| power of the pee tic acid TO gelantize all veg
etable matter held in solution in the stom-
4 ach puts its contents in such n condition
/ that the intesfines can manage IL. When n
! horse l. fed partly on carrots. none OF the
/ starch or other nutrliiye portions OF the
food Is unappropriated. IL i for this rea-
son that n bushcl of oats and bushcl of
/ carrots " II do more for the horse than
/ two bushels OF OATS, for then all of the
/ DISCRIMINATING material is appropriated for
his growth and strength.
OF all the roots for stock-fceling. fax
ing into account the cost of producing and
value. the writer prefers Lanes American
Sugar Beet-it grows TO a large size, is a
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the winter, and may be ted before the man
gold, which does not get ripe, suitable for
feeding. before the first OF January, and
comes in next to the sugar beet In desirabii-
~. Sugar beets and mangolds may be fed
la stock that have teeth. without the troub-
lie of cutting them.
Any land suitable for Indian corn will
if properly MANFRED and cared for, pro-
duce "A good crop OF beets. The land
should be in good state of cultivation and
filth. the seed may be sown about the
middle of May, in rows twenty-seven inch
e apart, with Harrington's seed sower:
the agitator to run at low speed. by the
removal of each alternate screw from the
driving wheel and using such sized hole
in the dropper that two or three seeds may
be deposited in the soil in each foot. If
any vacant places should be found at hoe
ing time, beets may be safely transplanted
by breaking of two or three of the lar
ge>t leaves, AT the time.
Roots for stock ought never 10 be stored
for the winter in the house cellar. but in
an apartment at the barn. either above or
below the sills A. they can best be preserv-
ed from excess OF moisture and freezing.
Such a room. Of convenient contiguity to
the stable, will save much hard labor, A.
well a. the Inconvenience OF the steam aud
odor from the roots, If kept in the house.
We cannot advise any individual to raise
roots very extensively for stock. unle>, he
has some other place to keep them than
house cellar. Roots may be we'll and
cheaply kept in pits. in similar manner
that potatoes are kept. except that they
need not be covered 80 deeply and should
be arranged for the escape of the steam
arising from thcm.-IN. A. SMITH. III
Homestead