REPORT OF THE CHEMIST 



181 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Average Percentage of Sugar in Juice in Sugar Beets grown on Experimental Farms, 



1002-1910. 



Locality. 



Charlottetown, P.E.I 



Nappan, N. S 



Ottawa, Ont 



Brandon, Man 



Indian Head, Sask 



Lethbridge, Alta., irrigated 



n n non-irrigated. 



Lacombe, Alta 



Agassiz, B. C 



1002. 



15-87 

 16 77 



1515 



1003. 



15 33 



15 34 

 11-36 



16 54 



1904. 



1441 

 16 91 

 16 62 

 15 24 



17 44 



8-10 



1905. 



16-52 

 12 45 

 11 09 

 14 94 



17 32 



1906. 



17 08 



14 37 



15 50 

 14 91 



14 23 



1907 



15 44 



16 99 

 IV 92 



13 34 



17 65 



1908. 



17 53 

 16 30 

 15 82 



15 66 



16 09 



16 73 

 1121 



17 15 



1909. 



16 74 

 14 S4 

 18 83 



17 16 

 17-91 



18 36 

 12-77 

 18 30 



1910. 



14 

 Hi 

 16 



is 



25 

 43 

 44 



40 



12 69 

 19 18 



The results do not differ materially from those of 1909. They clearly indicate 

 that beets of superior quality for factory purposes may be grown at widely distant 

 points in the Dominion. 



FODDERS AND FEEDING STUFFS. 



The official examination of Feeding Stuffs being now under the direction of the 

 Inland Revenue Department, this laboratory has been relieved from the necessity of 

 analysing samples of this character, generally, though analyses are still made in con- 

 nection with our own feeding experiments or to obtain data of general interest. In 

 the subjoined figures, the results are given of a few brands of oil cake and cotton seed 

 cake that it has been found desirable during the past year to submit to examination. 



Composition of Oil Cake axd Cotton Seed Meal. 



The oil calces and oil cake meals have always been found genuine and of good 

 quality, though, as might be expected, differences in protein and oil-content have been 

 noticed. The present samples, while all genuine, similarly exhibit differences in 



