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The most striking feature of the table is that the crops produc- 

 ing the greatest yield per acre gave beets containing the largest 

 percentage of sugar. The yields in all cases are computed from 

 small areas, and the smaller yields reported from Cayuga and 

 Wayne counties are undoubtedly due to the wet weather at seed- 

 ing time and again just before harvest, from which Tompkins 

 county in a measure escaped. 



The thanks of the Station are due Messrs. A. D. Baker, of Au- 

 relius, Cayuga county ; W. H. Burnham, of Groton, Tompkins 

 county ; R. G. H. Speed, of Slaterville, Tompkins county ; and 

 George C. Watson, of Clyde, Wayne county, for their trouble in 

 planting the seed and in sending samples to the Station for analy- 

 sis. 



Below is given the average percentage of sugar in beets grown 

 in different parts of the country. It contains all the analyses that 

 were found in a somewhat rapid examination of the bulletins and 

 reports of the various Agricultural Experiment Stations. It will 

 be seen that the beets of our own state compare somewhat un- 

 favorably with the others ; but the matter would seem to be worthy 

 of further study, as the past season was, on the whole, an un- 

 favorable one for sugar beets in this state. 



No. of Total Sugar 

 Analyses. per cent. 



California, 5 .... 10.70 



Canada 36 ... . 13.91 



Colorado, 32 .... 10.22 



South Dakota, 17 ... . 9.14 



Indiana, 10 ... . 11.93 



Nebraska, 9 .... 12.66 



New York, 6 . . . . 9.90 



Most of these analyses were made in 1888 and 1889, from the 

 crop of those years. 



SUGAR BEETS AS STOCK FOOD. 



As the sugar beet is often recommended to be grown for stock, 

 it seemed worth while to make a somewhat careful study of 

 their merits for this purpose as compared with mangels. The 

 sugar beets were grown in alternate rows with mangels, in the 

 ordinary " beet patch," so that they received the same care, cul- 



