. Carrots, mangold wurtzels and sugar beets. Carrots; Sugar beet; Mangel-wurzel. CARROTS, MANGOLDS AND SUGAR BEETS. 37 duced to the American public a lew years ago, under the name of Lane's Improved American Sugar Beet, is a strain of Long White Mangold. The improved varieties of Germany and France yield about double the percentage of sugar that is found in the common Mangold, in some crops the proportion being as high as sixteen per cent. This would make the Sugar Beets of double the value of Man- golds for stock, but unfortu- nately, the roots under like . conditions of average but half of M
. Carrots, mangold wurtzels and sugar beets. Carrots; Sugar beet; Mangel-wurzel. CARROTS, MANGOLDS AND SUGAR BEETS. 37 duced to the American public a lew years ago, under the name of Lane's Improved American Sugar Beet, is a strain of Long White Mangold. The improved varieties of Germany and France yield about double the percentage of sugar that is found in the common Mangold, in some crops the proportion being as high as sixteen per cent. This would make the Sugar Beets of double the value of Man- golds for stock, but unfortu- nately, the roots under like . conditions of average but half of Mangolds. The average of sugar found in analysis of beets grown in this country is exceptionably high. Hav- ing land free from alkalies, of unbounded fertility, read- ily accessible, and atainable at almost nominal cost, it is a serious question why we do not follow the example of other countries and raise our own sugar rather than import it. Our in- ducement is the home market that the sugar factory would afford for unlimited areas of beets, while the re- fuse pulp would enable farmers to increase greatly the number of their neat stock, to the advantage of the manure pile and enlargement of their area of till- age. The great draw back is the price of labor in our own prosperous cultivation, the weight percentage GLOBE 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]. Boston, J. J. Arakelyan
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