EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



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YIELD AND PER CENTS OF SUGAR TN BEETS PLANTED AT VARIOUS DISTANCES. 



Neither in yield of beets nor in per cent of sugar do the averages for 

 the several distances, 16, 18, 20 and 22 inches vary greatly. Two feet 

 appears to be too far apart for greatest yield of beets per acre although 

 there seems no decrease in the per cent of sugar. There is evidently 

 no relation between the width of rows and the richness of the beets. 



In Bulletin 197, page 122, there is a summary of the work with the 

 width of rows, the distances there taken being 18, 21 and 24 inches and 

 the general conclusion being that "Considering the entire work involved 

 in the narrowing space between rows together with the inconvenience 

 and even impossibility of cultivating with large farm horses in narrow 

 rows, it seems as yet fully as wise to continue with the rows twenty-one 

 inches apart at least." The experiments this year point in the same 

 direction. 



