Sugar Beet Investigations for 1899. 



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TABLE No. 2. 



COMPAEISON OF AvERAGE ReSULTS. 



Varieties. 



Klein wanzlebener. . . 



Vilmorin 



Zehringen 



Mangold .... 



Biendorf Elite Klein 



Average 



weight 



of beets, 



Ozs. 



16.1 

 15.7 

 15.4 

 15.7 

 15.0 



Yields 



tons per 



acre. 



11.67 

 Jl.l4 

 11.10 

 13.20 

 11.30 



Sugar 

 in juice 

 per cent. 



15.75 

 14.80 

 16.47 

 15.80 

 14.38 



Suger 

 in beets, 

 per cent. 



15.16 

 14.07 

 15.65 



15.01 

 14.19 



Purity 

 of juice. 



81.2 

 79.9 

 81.8 

 81.3 

 79.2 



Sugar 



produced 



per acre, 



Lbs. 



3538 

 3235 

 3474 

 3662 

 3207 



While the average yield and quality of the different varieties of 

 beets as shown in the above table are quite uniform, still between 

 the highest and lowest there is a difference of more than one ton 

 per acre in yield and above one and one-half per cent in content of 

 sugar. 



A gain or loss of one ton per acre as resulting from the variety 

 of beets planted is of very material importance to the farmer, and a 

 difference of one or one and a half per cent of sugar in the beets is 

 of even greater signilicance to the manufacturer. 



It is estimated that a factory slicing during the season 25,000 tons 

 of beets containing 15.5 per cent sugar will turn out 3,250 tons of 

 pure granulated marketable sugar, while if it were to slice the same 

 amount of beets 1.3 per cent poorer in sugar, it would turn out 

 2,925 tons of marketable product — a difference of 325 tons of 

 sugar which at $50 per ton would amount to $16,250. It will be 

 seen that while in each case the expense incurred for beets, labor, 

 fuel, etc., is the same, there is a difference in gross receipts for 

 manufactured sugar amounting to a sum that will go a long ways 

 towards a fair dividend on the investment. 



Unfortunately the variety showing the highest content of sugar 

 (Zehringen) seems to be the lightest yi elder. In our trials of 1898 

 (see Bulletin 166, pp. 135 and 136) this variety took the same rank 

 when compared with Kleinwanzlebener and Yilmorin as to yield 

 and quality that it does this season. 



The variety of sugar beets known as Mangold was tested by this 



