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cent of sugar in the juice by the per ceiit of total solids and mul- 

 tiplying by 100. The term purity is not an indication of the 

 quality of a juice, but of the quality of the total solids in the 

 juice ; that is, it tells how many parts are sugar in every 1 00 parts 

 of the total solids. 



We shall now take up, first, the general summary of the sea- 

 son's work and then the condensed reports from each county and 

 lastly the meteorological data for 1897 and 1898. 



Four hundred and ninety-six samples have been received and 

 analyzed consisting of the following varieties : 



Giving our attention to the three leading varieties ; the Klein- 

 wanzlebener, Vilmorin and Schreiber's German we find that 

 they ranged in quality as follows : 



