EXPERIMENT STATION REPORTS. 83 



have been collected in the open market for the fertilizer bulletin for 1900. 



Wood Ashes, and Crocker's Corn and Wheat Fertilizer. — Submitted 

 by the Farm Department. 



Lime Stone from Crand Rapids, submitted by the director. 



SUGAR BEKTS. 



.V larjiv number of analyses of sugar beets have been made for numer- 

 ous parties. 



Suji'ar and Puritv. — Five hundred and sixtv-seven samples of beets 



-have been analyzed durinc; the year, to determine the percentage of 



sugar and the co-efticieut of purity. Many of these analyses were made 



for the Farm Department in connection with experiments there carried 



on in the use of fertilizers, methods of cultivation, etc. 



Pellet's Method. — Nine samples of sugar beets were analyzed by 

 Pellet's method of extraction b}^ hot water, to determine the per cent of 

 sugar and the marc. 



Entire Beet. — The whole beet, divided into three parts, leaves, neck 

 and body, was analyzed separately, to determine the amount of sugar 

 in each, the organic nitrogen and the ash elements, including potash, 

 lime and phosphoric acid. This was done to find a basis for estimating 

 the impoverishing influence of the removal from the field of one or more 

 of these divisions of the beet. 



For these analyses .1 am indebted to the help of my faithful assistant, 

 L. H. Van AVormer. 



PAPER ON SUGAR BEETS. 



In connection with the work on "sugar beets in the State, I attended 

 the State meeting of the Farmers' Institutes in Ann Arbor and read a 

 paper, "The Relation of Factory to Farm in the Beet Sugar Industry," 

 and participated in the discussions on this subject. 



THE MEETING IN SAN FRANCISCO. 



Having been elected president of the Association of Official Agricul- 

 tural Chemists, a body that has control of the official methods of analy- 

 sis of fertilizers, food stutfs, etc., etc., in the United States, it became 

 my duty to attend the meeting in July, 1890, at San Francisco, to preside 

 at their meetings. The Association of Agricultural Colleges and Ex- 

 periment Stations held a joint meeting at the same time and place, and I 

 wns thus enabled to attend the meetings of both bodies, and with Prof. 

 Smith to represent the College and Station in these meetings. 



The excursion, the meetings, and the opportunity to see so much 

 of the agricultural and pomological resources of California, were very 

 enjoyabh*, and especially to meet so many of our students holding high 

 positions of trust and responsibility in the west. 



FERTILIZER BULLETIN NO. 174. 



The bulletin on fertilizers could not be issued till July, 1899, because 

 of the difficulty of collecting in the open market the specimens for 

 analysis on account of the tardiness of the shipment of these fertilizers 

 into the State after May 1. While the bulletin cannot be issued in time 

 for the spring trade, yet the information is available for use with the 



