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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Report of the chemist, H. W. Wiley (pp. 1-160).— This report gives a 

 bibliography of Department publications on the sugar-beet industry, 

 reviews in general the work of the Department and the experiment 

 stations with sugar beets, and reports the results of analyses made in 

 the chemical laboratory of the Department and at different experiment 

 stations. The climatic conditions are considered in general and the 

 probable areas suited to beet culture are shown on a map. The average 

 rainfall for the months of April to October, inclusive, at different places 

 in 11 States east of the Mississippi are tabulated, and the conditions 

 of temperature and precipitation of particular localities throughout the 

 country are noted. The following table gives the results of analyses 

 of beets for States from which 10 or more samples were obtained: 



Composition of sugar beets grown in different States, 1897. 



The analytical data presented in the table are elucidated by a brief 

 discussion of them for each State, supplemented by a summary of the 

 results obtained by the experiment stations in the different States. 

 Suggestions based on some of the data obtained are made on the 

 influence of temperature on the quality of sugar beets, and in this 

 connection the significance of the theoretical thermal belt suitable to 

 the growing of sugar beets is pointed out. The use of sugar beets and 

 beet pulp as cattle feed is discussed, with a review of feeding experiments 

 in this line, and the results of analyses of diffusion pulp are quoted. 

 Data collected in previous years from cultural tests of sugar beets in 

 various States are summarized in tables. 



The investigations in seed production carried on under the direction 

 of the Department of Agriculture at the New York State, Indiana, Wis- 

 consin, Iowa, Kentucky, and Tennessee stations are described for each 



