Sugar Beet Investigations for 1898. 



435 



and from the latter 83.7, a difference of .3 in favor of the fertil- 

 ized plats. 



hiflue^ice of variety upon yields of beets. — A large number of 

 farmers were supplied with several varieties of beet seed, but 

 unfortunately very few of them harvested the varieties separately 

 so as to be able to note comparative yields. The following table 

 gives the yields obtained by six farmers with from two to four 

 varieties each. It seems that there is comparativeh^ little dif- 

 ference in the yielding qualit}^ of the varieties named. 



iNFIvUENCE OF VARIETY UPON YlELD OF BEETS. 



(When more than one plat of a variety were grown by the same person the 



average is used.) 



hifluence of variety upo7i quality of beets. — On p. 453 — is given 

 the averages of all the analyses made of several leading varities 

 used in the experiments this season. It has been thought best 

 to present here some of the results obtained where these varieties 

 were planted side by side, all of the conditions except variety 

 being the same. 



