. Carrots, mangold wurtzels and sugar beets. Carrots; Sugar beet; Mangel-wurzel. CARROTS, M.\NGOLDS AND SUGAR BEETS. 35 duced to the American public a few years ago, under the name of Lane's Improved American Sugar Beet, is a strain of the Long White Mangold. The improved varieties of Germany and France yield about double the per centage of sugar that is found in the common Mangold, in some crops the proportion being as high as thir- teen per cent. This would make the Sugar Beets of double the value of Mangolds for stock, but unfortu- nately, the roots un- der like conditions of cultivation, a
. Carrots, mangold wurtzels and sugar beets. Carrots; Sugar beet; Mangel-wurzel. CARROTS, M.\NGOLDS AND SUGAR BEETS. 35 duced to the American public a few years ago, under the name of Lane's Improved American Sugar Beet, is a strain of the Long White Mangold. The improved varieties of Germany and France yield about double the per centage of sugar that is found in the common Mangold, in some crops the proportion being as high as thir- teen per cent. This would make the Sugar Beets of double the value of Mangolds for stock, but unfortu- nately, the roots un- der like conditions of cultivation, average but half the weight of Mangolds. As this treatise is about roots as food for stock, the cultivation of beet for the manu- facture of sugar is not globe mangold. within its sphere, yet I must express surprise that with the experience of Germany and France to draw from and our own inventive skill and enterprise to add to it, we have not as yet made marked advance in this department of manu- facturing industry. The average percentage of sugar found in analysis of beets grown in this country is exceptionably high. Land free from alkalies, of unbounded fertility, readily accessible, being attainable at almost nominal cost, it is a standing puzzle why we do not follow the example of other countries and raise our own sugar rather than import it. Per- haps the conundmm will be solved yet by some associate enterprise among our farmers, similar to that which gave. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gregory, James John Howard, 1827-1910. [from old catalog]. Marblehead, Mass. , N. A. Lindsey & co
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