The produce on 6 yards by 10 was 206 roots in number, and 477 pounds in weight, to which may be added about one-tenth more for plants consumed before the crop was taken up.
I think the Beet Root affords a very material increase to the stock of green food, of the best quality in the Autumn. months, and, when grown near enough to the farm yard to be taken daily as wanted, without too great an expence in labour and carriage, that mode of consuming the leaves and some of the roots may be resorted to with great advantage, and it may be found a resource of no small use in dry seasons.
Cattle in general eat both the root and top with eagerness. Pigs prefer them to any other vegetable food. I have occasionally given the roots in winter to horses, and particularly to brood mares and to foals, with hay, and they have invariably done well.
I am, &c.
John Shaw.
These and many other letters have been received by the author from gentlemen residing in different parts of the kingdom, recommending, from their own experience and success, the culture of the improved Beet Root, to those farmers who have yet to learn its value. In so doing, they are not actuated by any sordid motive or selfish principle. To do good to others is their aim, and to promote the public welfare the utmost of their ambition.
FINIS.
J. Swan, Printer, 76, Fleet Street, London.
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