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on in triplicate. Mr. Albert Wilterdink kindly allowed us the use of one of his fields, 

 two and one-half miles southeast of Holland. This field had borne clover in 1901 

 and corn in 1902. The soil was mostly a clay loam, running into sandy loam, was 

 gently rolling and well drained. A commercial fertilizer containing all three 

 elements, nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash was used at the rate of five hun- 

 dred pounds per acre. Seed was sowed in rows twenty inches apart. The soil wa& 

 in good condition when the seed was planted and Mr. Wilterdink gave the crop 

 most excellent cultivation throughout the season. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. Stuart Morrison, manager, a field of the Sheridan 

 avenue farm of the Saginaw Realty Company, was set aside for this test and others. 

 The soil was alluvial, dark sandy loam, very fertile and in an excellent state of 

 cultivation. 



Near Detroit, on the farm of Mr. Wm. Reed, a series of plots were used for 

 the triplicate test. 



The varieties tested and the source were as follows: 



Seed from David Sachs, Quedlinburg, sent by the Saginaw Sugar Company: 

 Rabbetge and Geisecke Original Kleinwanzlebener, from Holland Sugar Co.; 

 Original Kleinwanzlebener, Meyer and Raapke, from the Detroit Sugar Company. 



Seed A, from the Sebewaing Sugar Company; 



Seed B, from the Sebewaing Sugar Company; 



Hoerning's Kleinwanzlebener, from the German- American Sugar Company; 



Hoerning's Improved Kleinwanzlebener, from the Peninsular Sugar Company; 



Seed from D. Sachs, from the Detroit Sugar Company; 



Dippe's Kleinwanzlebener, from the Detroit Sugar Company; 



Original Kleinwanzlebener, Rabbetge und Geisecke, from the Holland Sugar 

 Company; 



Seed from the Michigan Sugar Company; 



Schreiber's Elite, from the Detroit Sugar Company; 



Jaensch Victrix, from the Saginaw Sugar Company; 



C. Brown Kleinwanzlebener, from the Saginaw Sugar Company; 



American grown Kleinwanzlebener, from the United States Department of Agi'i- 

 culture; 



Dippe's Improved Kleinwanzlebener, from the German- American Seed Company; 



Carl Schubert & Company, Ideal, from Saginaw Su'^ar Company; 



Otto Hoerning's Kleinwanzlebener, from the Saginaw Sugar Company; 



C. Vorstadt, from the Saginaw Sugar Company. 



The season was wet throughout but none of the fields were ruined by the floods 

 although the one on the farm of the Saginaw Realty Comp my was ove flo.ved 

 for days at a time. The harvest was wet and delayed. There elapsed therefore 

 considerable time between the harvesting of the beets and the delivery to the 

 factory. In the next table there is given the per cent of sugar in the beets as 

 determined by a composite of ten or more single beets from each plot, the test 

 made at the station laboratory. In the next column is given the per cent as found 

 by the factory when the beets were delivered. 



Holland Detroit Saginaw 



Sta- Fac- Sta- Fac- Sta- Fac- 



tion, tory. tion. tory. tion. tory. 



Schreiber's Elite 18.2 16.9 15.2 15.6 16.2 16.2 



American Grown 16.1 15.6 15.2 .... 14.5 .... 



Carl Schubert Ideal 17.3 16.5 14.7 16 14.4 12.6- 



Dippe's Improved Klein.swanzleben 16.6 17.5 14.8 15.4 14.6 13.2 



Rabbetge und Geisecke Original Klein 17.5 17.4 16.1 .... 15.2 13 



Sebewaing A 16.5 14.5 15.4 .... 14.6 14 



Sebewaing B 17.3 17.8 15.5 .... 15.6 15.2 



Meyer und Raapke, Original 17.2 18.4 16.3 16.6 15.3 16.2 



Dippe's Kleinwanzleben 17.4 17.3 15.1 15.7 15.3 14.3 



Rabbetge und Geisecke Original Klein 18.5 17.5 16.3 15.5 15 2 14.2 



Michigan Sugar Co 17.7 17 .... 15.6 16.2 13 8 



Hoerning's Elite 16.5 16.7 15.1 14.9 14.8 12 



Hoerning's Improved 16.7 16.2 13.3 15.2 15.2 14 



Otto Hoerning 16.4 16.6 14.3 15.7 14.5 14.1 



Sachs' 15.5 16 14.2 16.1 14.2 13.4 



C. Vorstadt 16.8 16.1 13.5 15.5 15.3 13. S 



Jaensch'3 Victrix 17.3 16.6 15.4 15.7 .... 13.2 



0. Broime 17.3 16.2 14.8 16.1 14.8 13.4 



David Sachs 16 15.6 14.8 .... 15.2 15 



