VARIETIES OF SUGAR-BEETS. 



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from one acre varies from eight hundred to two thousand 

 pounds. Our small demand for seeds has been, thus far, 

 supplied from Germany and France. The White Imperial 

 and Electoral sugar-beet, both of the Province Saxony, 

 Prussia, besides Vilmorin's Improved Sugar-Beet, have 

 yielded excellent results upon the College Farm. The infe- 

 rior keeping quality of the Vilmorin beet-root limits its 

 application. 



Seeds raised upon the College Farm (1872) from some 

 of the above-stated varieties of sugar-beets produced roots of 

 a superior saccharine character. 



As it may not be without interest to others to learn where 

 to secure good seeds, I take the liberty to insert the com- 

 munications of two well-indorsed parties, received quite 

 recently. 



Friedrich Dippe of Plotha, near Naumburg, A. S. Prussia, 

 offers at the railroad depot, near home, Vilmorin's Improved 

 Sugar-Beet, at forty-two marks for fifty kilogrammes (one 

 kilogramme is equal to 2.2 pounds ; one mark to 23.8 cents) ; 

 White Imperial Sugar-Beet, fifty kilogrammes at thirty-three 

 marks; Small Wanzleben Sugar-Beet, fifty kilogrammes at 

 fifty marks. 



O. Schlieckmann of Auleben, near'Heringen Halle-Cassel, 

 Province Saxony, Prussia, offers his Improved Silesian White 

 Sugar-Beet, at fifty marks for fifty kilogrammes, at the rail- 

 road depot near home. This variety contains, according to 

 the examinations of chemists of numerous German experi- 

 ment stations, from fifteen to sixteen per cent of sugar. 



