Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1911 — Beets Tops in Dairy Ration. [ARTICLE]

Beets Tops in Dairy Ration.

Beet tops are no doubt a valuable addition to a dairy ration. The freshness and juicy nature keeps the appetite keen. They act as a regulator. preventing the constipating effect of dry foods. They thereby seem to aid digestion and assimilation and they certainly stimulate the milk flow. It is their succulent nature rather than the nutrients they contain that gives value to beet tops. Sugar beets have been found to possess a feeding value equal to corn silage for dairy cows and since the leaves appear* to be more than half as nutritious as the part of beet adhering to them the value of this by-product is certainly not to be ignored in beet growing communities. An acre of good beeu will yield from fifteen to twenty tons to the acre.—Field and Farm.