The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-31
Sugar Beet Growing In the south.

The Editor of the Southern Planter says:
There can be no question but that the
sugar beet can be fed to live stock with ad-
vantage, probably with greater advantage
than can the pulp after the sugar has been
extracted and for this reason we have
urged that experiments should be made
IN raising the crop, even although no SUI
gar factory should be Immediately in
ssht. The crop need not be wasted when
raised and the best method of raising it
lor making sugar when the factory is es-
Iaollshed can thus be studied without loss.
bul whist thus indorsing the sugar beet
az d 1000 Tor stock, we thing that in Sec
sons Where there is no immediate pros
- VI sugar factory being erected, that
"a HeTS would do much better to grow
sne MahSold-Wurtzel, beet for stock feed
us Nhle not so rich in saccharine mat
i aS the sugar beet, 1t is yet very sweet.
SI.' Is more valuable as food. especially
,J "ilch cows, than rutabagas or tur-
,a beets show by analysis 1.53 of pro-
D n' ''9f OF carbohydrates, and OLA of fat
Hu,aoagas analyze LIB of protein. 766 of
o~i ydrates and OILS of fat. Turnips
ddmHty|e LA of protein, 6.27 of carbohy-
No. 80, ana ol6 of fat This greater rich
soi III Iced quality, however, is not the
~ Or even the great reason WHY the
S-"Isold- Wurtzel beet should be grown for
ga. purpose in preference to the SUI
bSa,. G'e'. The great factor is the much
go15 crop which can be raised on Man
4 go urlzeI beets than Of sugar beets
"a N % etop OF sugar beets will weigh from
rai-,5 20 TONS per acre. The average crop
c "Is5u is about Is tons.
- S2GI crop of Mangold- Wurtzel beets will
tons - " IONS per acre. We have grown 20
sco7 " 'he acre. The best crop we have
tons ~ ported in England this year is 81
to ~ w 'he acre. An average crop is 40 TONS
snob acre It has been doubted whether
raisa5 iopS Of Mangold-Wu can be
that !, ~ ms state, but we are satisfied
who C'H ne done. A subscriber of ours
tbtnp II IN. the possibility of raising any
Question ~ TONS to the acre, tested the
side w. .No or three years ago in South
cess " "slnia, and made so great a src-
bar +b 'a' ne told us that he did not. doubt
lie 81 81 ne could grow 60 tons to the acre
al tb ~ an acre, and made near 50 tons
as tbis l fl triaL Comparing such a WELD
4 VIII win the best yields of sugar bets
b. ,r,5 s seen how much more food can
Wurtzei per acre from the Mangod-
and that o,et than from the sugar beet.
ton for 'VUu OF nearly equal value per
and r,,, i'edlng purposes OF ruta bagas
gro., 'Hips much greater ,veiott ca,, ba
have .. acre than of sugar beets. We
ae4 WI ~ tons to the acre of rIta-
These ro' an average crop is % tons
Ing vain ''s, too are Of nearly equal feed
easier ~ win the sugar beets, and much
Winters A,ep sound and good during hard
sirous NJ e. nave always been most de-
SouJb "a, eng more roots grown in the
Welcome sock feeding, and therefore
those c.,. .1g sugar beet as an addition to
cannot rr' OF being produced; but e
alone. in lneir growth for this purpose
Wurtze.s rpeietence to the Mansold-
whep" d r9f The sugar factory. the nun.
liable ae, D or sliced, will be found a val
he same ,, ,sll'on 10 stock-feeders and at
Of the %r,, uihe help to make the production
w more profitahle.