MANGOLD WURZEL.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 26, 30 November 1872, Page 3

MANGOLD WU RZ EL.

fTo'W ia the season for planting mangold* vrurad, but be careful that your reed is only twelve months old ; the peed of every variety of beta Is very apt to degenerate. Any soil, so long as it is rich, will suit this plant. Prepare ground tho same as for turnips. Tho seed may \;o dibbled. After culture consists of horse or hand hoeing and weeding. Any blanks may bo filled uabv transplanting. _ v The produce is about 23 tons per aero j list an aero of mangold-wurzel will afford more nourishment than turnips, carrots, or parsnips. An ix food for stock it takes a high character, and for milch cows is much used near London, kb it increases the supply of milk and gives no unpleasant taste to either that or tho butter, Tho tors taken off and given by themselves, and then tho roots are taken up, washed, .and given raw. Groat quantities of mangold;* or beets tiro how grown for distillery purposes, a'so for the manufacture of sugar, one ton of beet giving about one cwt. of sugar. "Wo recommend the culture of this crop in our readers. To those keeping cows or pigs i; i« a useful winter fond, and with tho latter might very JiKuciouTy bo Buu.-dit.ncd far potatoes. AL twine future period we trust it may be grow# for the purposes of sugar manufacture, ho plant 13 lets liable to diseases than the betL