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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



the rows and mixed into the soil Avilh <a hand cultivator. The crop received only 

 usual care. The seed was sown April 28 in drills IS inches apart. 



Variety test of beets, Michigan Experiment Station, 1900. 



Variety. 



Seed test 



from 100 seed 



baits. 



B. G. V. Wliite Improved 



Vilmorin 



Austrian Special KI. No. 8 — 

 " " No. 5.... 



LichtKl 



Zieiuann Kl 



Kl. Govt. Seed 3944 



Zeh. " " 3942 



Vil. " " 3941 



Kl. from D. M. Ferry »& Co 



Russia 1 Govt, seed 3943 



" 2 " " 4416 



Mangold 



Simon Le Grande B 12 



" C 27 



B. G. V. White Improved 

 Vilmorin 



Average 



85 

 122 

 155 

 125 

 115 



144 



()6 



77 



209 



144 



226 



110 



87 



33 



85 



119 



166 

 150 

 175 

 167 

 211 



184 

 66 

 183 

 209 

 201 



237 

 150 

 184 

 126 



166 



169 



52 

 30 

 25 

 28 

 9 



28 

 64 

 51 

 3 

 00 



00 

 38 

 13 

 28 



52 



7 



6+ 



6— 



7 — 

 8— 



6+ 

 7— 

 G+ 



6+ 



6— 

 7— 



7— 



6+ 



27 



6J 



9) 



c 

 c 

 H 





•3 

 o 



15.53 

 15.21 

 16.29 

 14.11 

 14.96 



14.32 

 14.38 



*10.87 

 13.12 

 12.99 



12.13 

 13.82 

 15.08 

 15.74 



12.60 



14.08 



s> 



.s 



ho 



(D 



B 

 O 



u 



p. 





a, 

 o 



b 



e 

 s> £ 



'u , .eS 



13.05 

 12.52 

 12.91 

 12.02 

 12.02 



12.36 

 13.32 

 13.05 

 14.37 

 10.92 



12.33 

 12.63 

 12.13 

 12.50 



11.94 



.$4 85 

 4 67 

 4 80 



1 4 51 

 4 51 



4 62 

 4 94 



4 85 



5 29 

 4 10 



4 61 

 4 71 

 4 54 



4 C7 



4 48 



12.54 



$75 32 

 71 03 

 78 19 

 63 63 



67 47 



66 16 



68 04 



52 72 



69 40 



53 26 



55 92 



65 09 

 68 46 

 73 51 



66 45 



$4 68 



$65 89 



* An old dead furrow occurred in the middle of this plot. 



The above figures represent llie actual yield after triiiniiing and computing dock- 

 age. All the beets grown on the College Farm are fed to the College stock. The bulk 

 of the crop is trimmed only to the extent of removing the leaves. We, however, make 

 dockage records with every separate lot of beets with which experiments are made. 

 Beets as they go into our root cellars give a dockage of from ten to fifteen per cent 

 when trinmicd for the factory, while these beets trimmed in the field for factory 

 jiurposes show only two per cent dockage when carefully cleaned and trimmed as it is 

 done in determining tare at the factory. 



The first three columns of the table above give the results of the germination and 

 vitality tests made by Prof. C. F. Wheeler and his class in sugar beet culture. One 

 hundred seed balls were used in each test. The first column gives the number of 

 sprouts appearing at the end of seven days, and serves as an index to the vitality 

 and vigor of the seeds. The second column includes the first, together with the addi- 

 tional sprouts that appeared the second week of the test. The third column may 

 be used to indicate the per cent of worthless seeds in each sample as it represents 

 the number of bad seeds in a hundred. The Austrian Special B. G. V. grew 1G6 

 sprouts from 48 seed balls, nearly three and a half sprouts to each ball, while the 

 Simon LeGrande C. 27 produced "only 120 sprouts from 72 balls, or an average of 

 one and three-fourths sprouts to each ball. The low germination does not seem to 

 affect the yield, for the best yielding varieties are by no means those which gave 

 the highest"^ percentage of germination. This is probably due to the fact that enough 

 seed is sown — fifteen pounds ])er acre — to insure a perfect stand, even though a large 

 percentage of seed failed to germinate. 



Taking the above average yield for 14.08 tons per acre and the average per cent of 

 sugar in the juice, 13.G3, tlie method of computing the money value of an acre of 



