EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



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RE8ULTS BY COUNTIES. 



In order to present the results in the different sections of the State, 

 Table II is inserted, giving the number of samples sent to the Station 

 from each county, the average per cent of sugar and coefficient of purity, 

 of all samples sent, and a corrected table in which the samples grown on 

 the wrong kind of soil, or with poor seed, are omitted. Seed was dis- 

 tributed in sixty-eight counties, and from the table below it will be 

 seen that samples have been received from sixty-four of them. The 

 average per cent of sugar in the beets of the whole State, when grown on 

 the proper kind of soil and from the right kind of seed, is 16.40, and the 

 coefficient of purity is 84. This coefficient of purity signifies that of 

 the whole amount of materials in solution in the sap of the beet, 84 per 

 cent is sugar and only 16 per cent is gummy, saline or non-saccharine 

 matter. An average of 16.40 per cent of sugar for the whole State, far 

 exceeding the best districts in France and Germany, is both surprising 

 and gratifying. 



TABLE II. — Results by counties. 



Conntiee. 



Alger „ 



Allegan 



Alpena 



Antrim 



Arenac 



Baraga ... 



Barry 



Bay 



Berrien 



Branch 



Calhoun 



Cas6 



Charlevoix 



Clare 



Clinton 



Crawford 



Eaton 



Emmet 



Genesee 



Grand Traverse 



Gratiot 



Hillsdale 



Hnron 



Ingham 



Ionia 



Iosco 



Iron 



Isabella 



Jackson 



Klamaz io 



c 



a 

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e . 



80 

 86 

 80 

 82 

 85 



76 



81 

 84 

 87 

 84 



84 

 82 

 87 

 84 

 ^6 



81 

 83 

 82 

 84 

 83 



83 



84 

 85 

 87 

 82 



79 

 80 



82 

 86 

 82 



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