On the improved beet root, as winter food for cattle — John Shaqi
On the improved beet root, as winter food for cattleSimpson, Pinder
Science
On the improved beet root, as winter food for cattle
Simpson, Pinder
Beets; Mangel-wurzel
Edward Russell, Esq. Holland House, Surrey.
John Renshaw, Esq. Nottingham.
Mr. Robert Robinson, Havering, Essex.
Mr. John Rowell, Holbeck, Lancashire.
The Honourable John Simpson, M.P. Babworth, Nottinghamshire.
S. E. Sawbridge, Esq. Olantigh, Kent.
Robert Snow, Esq. Temple Bar, London.
John Shaw, Esq. Wheston Hall, Derbyshire.
William Sandby, Esq. Rochlin, Herefordshire.
John Stephens, Esq. Reading.
Thomas Sewell, Esq. Newport, Isle of Wight.
William Stone, Esq. Englefield, Berkshire.
Benjamin Severn, Esq. Hare Hall, Essex.
Mr. John Sutton, Sawtry, Huntingdonshire.
Mr. William Speechly, King’s Newton Hall, Derbyshire.
Mr. Robert Swift, Wyddial, Hertfordshire.
The Right Hon. Lord John Townshend, Balls Park, Hertfordshire.
The Rev. Robert Thomson, LL.D. Long Stowe Hall, Cambridgeshire.
H. B. Thornhill, Esq. Langwith Lodge, Notts.
C. T. Tower, Esq. Weald Hall, Essex.
George Tuson, Esq. Ilchester, Somersetshire.
Mr. William Trumper, Dorney, Buckinghamshire.
Mr. Reynier Tiler, Windsor, Berkshire.
Mr. Robert Tomlin, Stoke, Derbyshire.
Mr. John Trumper, Harefield, Middlesex.
C. C. Western, Esq. M.P. Felix Hall, Essex.
The Rev. E. Williamson, Campton, Bedfordshire.
C. H. Ware, Esq. Gray’s Inn, Middlesex.
John Willock, Esq. Golden Square, London.
Thomas Willan, Esq. Marybone Park, Middlesex.
Mr. Charles Waistell, Holborn, Middlesex.
Mr. William Weller, Amersham, Buckinghamshire.
Mr. William Ward, Durham.
Mr. Thomas Wolton, Pirgo Park, Essex.
Mr. Joseph Watson, Shimpling, Norfolk.
Mr. William Weedon, Wilsden Green, Middlesex.
ON THE
IMPROVED BEET ROOT,
AS
WINTER FOOD FOR CATTLE.
CHAP. I.
The garden at Cheese Cross produced a fine crop of the Improved Beet
Root. The roots, when about the size of a radish, were thinned out with
a turnip hoe, leaving the plants nearly 15 inches apart each way. I
selected 60 square yards, 6 by 10, and found the produce to be 360
roots, equal to 29,040 roots upon an acre. They weighed from 1 pound to
12 pounds each, and 10 of them, taken up indiscriminately, weighed 40
pounds. Supposing them, therefore, to average 4 pounds each, the
_weight_ upon an acre would be something more than 50 tons. One hundred
weight, cut into small pieces for the cattle, measured 2 bushels. The
_quantity_ per acre may therefore be estimated at 2000 bushels, 2
bushels are given to each bullock daily: 196 bushels, the produce of
only about a tenth part of an acre of garden ground, planted in this
way, would keep a bullock 14 weeks.
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