EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



285 



SCHOOLCRAFT COUNTY, 



Grower 



M. Grunrood 



John Devroj 



Peter Peterson 



Earl Ford 



Samuel T. White , 



Nathan N. Hutchinson 



Average 



15.16 



84.7 



SUMMARY. 



No. of 



County. samples. 



Alger 5 



Baraga 18 



Chippewa .37 



Delta .,.. .35 



Dickinson 2 



Houghton 7 



Iron 2 



Luce 1 



Mackinac ^ 



Marquette 10 



Menominee 17 



Ontonagon 5 



Schoolcraft 6 



The men who grew these beets were inexperienced and most of them 

 made the mistake of pulling them too green. The purity is low and the 

 per cent of sugar is much lower than it would have been had the beets 



been left in the ground until fully ripe. 



No conclusion can be drawn from the results of the work of a single 

 season either as to the per cent of sugar and purity that may be expected 

 from beets grown under the climatic conditions obtaining in the Upper 

 Peninsula, nor as to the adaptation of the business of growing beets and 

 making sugar therefrom to that great section of the State. 



