Beet sugar, however, does not possess so high a percentage of true saccharine matter as does the product of the cane, the latter seeming to be nature's most direct mode of supplying us with the article.
Fertilizing of any sort is rarely employed in the cane-fields, while in beet farming it is the principal agent of success.
Low wages will prevail, and this is necessary to enable the planters to compete with the beet sugar producers of Europe.
And it is by no means clear to my mind that there is much to be gained by selecting the sugar-beet instead of a good variety of mangel-wurzel.
I said: "Youngsters, I think I'll get my garden book and be sure I'm right about sowing the radish and beet seed and the peas.
BEET SALAD~--Bake the beets until tender, remove the skins and place them in the ice box to chill.
In the centre put a stuffed olive and surround with a row of chopped beet and another of chopped white of egg.
I think the squash is less squashy, and the beet has a deeper hue of rose, for my care of them.
I never cared for the beet or the bean; but I fancy now that I could eat them all, tops and all, so completely have they been transformed by the soil in which they grew.
Owing to the enormous increase in the output ofbeet sugar in Europe, prices fell rapidly.
In time, even in this remote quarter of the globe the growth of the beet industry compelled the planters to make radical changes.
The output of beet sugar steadily forged ahead until, in the early eighties, it was almost equal to the output of cane sugar.
So the first thing this morning he set about making a snow man, that he might put the beet vitals in their proper places, nearly convulsing father by their location.
The red beet is useful in some diseases of the womb, while the white beet is good for the liver.
The speculative purposes that our most fertile fields are put to in the matter of the sugar beet for the exportation of sugar, have been pointed out in a previous chapter.
Sow Perpetual Spinach or Spinach Beet in March in drills 1 ft.
The roots may remain in the ground till required for use, or be lifted in October and stored in the same way as Beet or Carrots.
Add a root of celery, a small root of parsley, some sorrel, a bunch of white beet leaves and chervil, and half a pint of peas tied in a piece of linen.
Chopped parsley, chives, and beet root may be added.
Boil them in half a pint of water very slowly for half an hour, adding a bit of alum the size of a pea; or use beet root sliced, and some liquor poured over.
Pick two handfuls of parsley from the stems, half the quantity of spinach, two lettuces, some mustard and cresses, a few leaves of borage, and white beet leaves.
A handful of white beet leaves, cut small, may be added.
Trim and well wash the stalks of green and white beet leaves, and boil them in water, moving them frequently, to prevent the upper ones from turning black.
They eat well alone, with only salt and cold butter; or with beet root, or roast potatoes.
Put the slices of beet into jars, pour the pickle upon them, and tie the jars down close.
Carrots, parsnips, and beet root, should be kept in layers of dry sand, and neither they nor potatoes should be cleared from the earth.
Add to this a quarter of a pint of cream, or of the juice of beet leaves, extracted by pounding them in a marble mortar, and then draining off the juice through a piece of muslin.
For Green, spinach or beet leaves bruised and pressed, and the juice boiled to take off the rawness.
Take a little of the jelly while running, mix it with a tea-cupful of water in which a piece of beet root has been boiled, and run it through the bag when all the rest is run out.
He published a well written and edifying book upon "Beet Sugar," giving the results of his investigations and experiments.
Her other artistic passion was music, quite out of her reach at this period; but happily, she loved birds and flowers, both of which a Beet Sugar Farm in the Connecticut Valley made possible.
Two thousand head of cattle are being fattened at the present time in the company's yard on the beet pulp.
The beet crop is rotated with beans, and the factory's supply is kept good by systematic methods.
The sugar beet has, in Europe especially, become the basis of a great industry.
The mangel-wurzel and the sugar-beet are usually grown as a field crop, and will not enter into the calculations of the home garden.
CHARD, or SWISS CHARD,--is a development of the beet species characterized by large succulent leafstalks instead of enlarged roots.
On heavy ground the turnip beet gives the best results, as the growth is nearly all at or above the surface.
The soil should be loose enough for the whole body of the beet to remain underground.
When the outside leaves of the beet take on a yellow tinge and drop to the ground, the beets are ripe.
The sugar-beet is a comparatively new root crop in America.
Put the slices of beet into jars, add the pickle, put a small quantity of sweet oil on the top, and tie the jars down close.
When the beet is wanted for use mix well together sweet oil, mustard, some of the liquor in which the roots were pickled, and a very little sifted sugar.
The common white beet has many great leaves next the ground, somewhat large and of a whitish green colour.
The government of these two sorts of Beets are far different; the red Beet being under Saturn and the white under Jupiter; therefore take the virtues of them apart, each by itself.
The red Beetroot boiled and preserved in vinegar, makes a fine, cool, pleasing, cleansing, digesting sauce.
The white Beet much loosens the belly, and is of a cleansing, digesting quality, and provokes urine.
Garnish the dish with horse-radish and red-beet root.
They are often preferred to beets;--this is a mistake--four pounds of beet are equal to five pounds of carrot for feeding to domestic animals.
Mangel-Wurtzel yields most for field-culture, and is the great beet for feeding to domestic animals; not generally used for the table.
It is considered established, now, that four pounds of beet equal in nourishment five pounds of carrot.
French Sugar or Amber Beet is good for field-culture, both in quality and yield; but it is not equal to the Wurtzel.
Horses do better on equal parts of beet and hay than on ordinary hay and grain.
Cut the potatoes in small slices, the beet a little finer, and the turnip and carrot very fine.
One quart of potatoes, two table-spoonfuls of grated onion, two of chopped parsley, four of chopped beet and enough of any of the dressings to make moist.
The price of sugar at Kansas City is made by competition of Louisiana sugar coming from New Orleans, of beet sugar and Hawaiian sugar from Colorado and San Francisco, and of the world's sugar from New York.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
