Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-03-02
MONEY RAISING BETS
Continued from Page I

do the same, il you are not doing it
already. There is not farmer who
W Guild not accept of five, ten or fifteen
acres of land the same as he owns if it
was given to him. Yet, many farmers
will hesitate about growing beets when
by so doing they will actually be adding
just as much acreage capacity to their
farm as acres of beets they grow. These
are facts worth considering. The tops
from an acre of good beets are worth as
much for feed as an acre Of good hay.
Here is what they think of beet tops in
the west where hay and corn are both
cheap:
"A prominent farmer recently ex-
pressed himself as follows in relation
to the value of sugar beet tops for feed
ing cattle:
The cream of the beet is in the tops.
The sugar is in the bottoms. Mixing
the cream with the sugar makes lovely
cup of coffee l am highly pleased with
beet tops as feed and my cows are more
so than myself. If l offer them any
thing else than beet tops, they turn their
heads. will give the exact figures on
20 head of COWS for six days in 1904
when 1 was feeding good corn stalks and
grain On November 22d, 1904, sold
302 lbs of milk, November oath, 29S lbs
November 26th, 276 lbs, making total
of 876 lbs. for six days
ON November 22d, 1905, / sold 542
lbs of milk. November Gath, SAP lbs.
November Goth, 573 lbs, making a total
of 1857 lbs, from the same number of
cows and they have not had thing but
sugar beet tops since the LIST day of
October, and they are still getting their
living on sugar beet tops at this writing.
consider this a big profit when cheese
is high as figure that l can afford to
grow sugar beets for the tops for the
cows. as they come at time of the
year when the cows need q succulent
food to finish up the year with good
flow of milk, and what get out of the
beets is nearly all profit. am highly
pleased with the sugar beet crop, and
as sugar is ODE OF the necessaries of life
and one of the staple products, / am in
the business 20 stay, and can honestly
recommend it TO my neighbors and fell
low farmers as good and profitable
crop, and good crop of beets will not
hurt any man.
"Another farmer says i have fed
six head of COWS on sugar beet tops
solely for five weeks and four days and
l sold 4, 400 lbs. of milk during this time
for 81. 10 per cwt., making me $4,000,
which is the value of my beet tops on
four acres. This covers nearly all my
expenses for raising the crop, leaving
me the beets as almost all profit. l am
satisfied with the beet crop and 1 do
not consider it any more work than a
crop of potatoes 1 figure that / can
take care of crop much easier and
cheaper next year. 1 have already
given my contract for next year
"These figures show that the beet
tops when fed to mich cows nearly pay
for raising the crop. The sugar beet is
a great money crop, easy to grow as
soon as you learn how"
Mr.. Frank Rivett of North Star told
us yesterday that his cattle and sheep
had wintered entirely on sugar beet
tops up to the thaw and the fields being
so muddy, he then shut them up to keep
them from tramping the fields and gave
them the best of feed, but in spite of
this cows shrunk over one half in milk
production.
If you have not already taken a con-
tract, we think you are very foolish
that you do not make calculations to fit
up few acres and raise some beets the
coming season, for you can get almost
as much feed from the tops of your
beets as your land will raise in other
crops and still have the bottoms of the
beets to sell to the factory which will
return you fine profit. Don't hesitate
any longer. Write a contract now
ALMA SUGAR COMPANY