630 



EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The 10 tubers planted according to the Giilich method yielded 3,800 

 gm. of large and 500 gin. of small tubers. The 86 eyes of the other 10 

 tubers yielded 35,700 gm. of large aud 2,900 gm. of small tubers. It is 

 stated that iu field experiments the results were not so striking, but 

 still considerably in favor of planting the eyes singly. The Giilich 

 method was not conducive to the formation of good-sized tubers. The 

 author believes that hilling interferes with the assimilative functions of 

 the plant. 



In another experiment the use of different-sized tubers for seed and 

 planting at different distances were tested on plats equal in size. The 

 plants were grown 20, 40, and 60 cm. apart in rows 50 cm. apart. Large, 

 medium, and small tubers, weighing 90 to 100, 50, and 30 gm. respec- 

 tively were used for seed. The results are given below : 



Yields per plat from different- si zed tubers grown at different distances. 



Sugar beets in Idaho, C. W. McCurdy [Idaho Sta. Bui. 12, pp. 37- 

 73, figs. 8).— This bulletin reviews the work with sugar beets in the 

 State, discusses in a popular way the history of the industry, the 

 world's production and consumption of sugar, and the climate, soil, and 

 fertilizers suited to the sugar beet, and considers the factors which 

 enter into the establishment of a beet-sugar factory. A number of 

 varieties of sugar beets are described and compared. The relative 

 worth of the different varieties deduced from analyses made by the 

 station is given in the following table: 



Comparison of varieties of sugar beets. 



Name. 



Kleinwanzleben ... 



Metta - 



Vilmorin Imperial . 

 Vilmorin Improved 

 French Red Top . . . 



Lane Imperial 



New Danish 



Analyses were made of large, medium, and small sized beets of 4 dif- 

 ferent varieties and tbe results show the highest sugar content aud 

 purity in the medium-sized beets, which weighed about 1 pound. Forty- 

 one samples, including 20 from the station, were analyzed in 1897; the 

 average sugar content was 15.17 per cent, with an average purity of 



