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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Summary of analyses of beets grown at WoUand, Mich. 



Kind of seed used. 



Utah 



Washington 



Califi >rnia 



Kleinwanzlebener (average for :-; fields i — 



Michigan 



German No. 1 



Hoerning (Germany) | average for 2 fields i . 



. I en 8. 



0.23 



.35 

 .38 



.13 

 . 25 



Sugar 

 content. 



P( I C( tit. 



16.00 

 13.40 



15. 00 

 15. 10 

 12.50 

 13. 10 

 13.25 



Yield per 

 acre. 



Tons. 



•21.7(1 

 15. 80 

 11.00 



11.1?, 



13.70 

 8.00 



11.50 



Sugar • 



yield. 



34. 72 

 21.17 

 16.50 

 16.82 

 17. 12 

 10. 4H 

 15.17 



The Hoerning and Kleinwanzlebener seed was obtained from commercial lots. 

 The Kleinwanzlebener was compared with the seed from Utah, Washington, and 

 California, and the Hoerning with seed from Michigan and German Xo. 1. 



The factory and farm results reported for 1903 include the climatic conditions 

 prevalent during the season, the tonnage of beets worked in each State, the amount 

 of sugar produced and the features of improvement and general conditions prevalent 

 in each factory district. Statistics of results for the year in a total of 49 factories are 

 tabulated. A series of letters discussing sugar-beet growing are reproduced, and the 

 matter of State bounties is briefly reviewed. 



In 1903, 242,576 acres of beets producing an average of 8.418 tons per acre were 

 harvested and the average price per ton was 84.966. The quantity of beets worked 

 was 2,076,494 tons from which 481,209,087 lbs. of sugar were obtained. 



Experiments with sugar beets ( Wisconsin Sta. Rpi. 1903, pp. 298-301). — This 

 article reviews work previously published and noted as follows: Sugar Beet Produc- 

 tion: Possibilities for a New Industry in "Wisconsin, by W. A. Henry ( E. S. R., 9, p. 

 133) ; Sugar-Beet Culture in Wisconsin During 1897, by F. W. Woll (E. S. R., 10. p. 

 39); Sugar-Beet Investigations in Wisconsin During 1898, by F. W. Woll (E. S. R., 

 11, p. 143); Sugar-Beet Culture in Wisconsin During 1899, by F. W. Woll (E. S. R., 

 13, p. 44); Experiments in Sugar-Beet Culture During 1900 and 1901, by F. W. Woll 

 and R. H. Shaw (E. S. R., 13, p. 946); and Sugar-Beet Experiments During 1902, 

 by F. W. Woll and R. A. Moore (E. S. R., 14, p. 961). 



The results for 1903 show that Kleinwanzleben yielded at the rate of 52,760 lbs. of 

 beets per acre, representing, at an average sugar content of 11.82 per cent, a produc- 

 tion of 6,238 lbs. of sugar. A practically perfect stand had been obtained from the 

 use of seed at the rate of 23 lbs. per acre. Subsoiling increased the yield of beets 

 and of sugar only where phosphate and potash or nitrate, phosphate, and potash 

 were applied. It is believed that in these cases the effect of retarding maturity 

 caused by subsoiling was overcome by the use of the fertilizers. As in previous 

 years the fertilizer tests show that on a suitable soil in a good state of fertility, com- 

 mercial fertilizers are of little benefit and sometimes remain without effect altogether. 



On the effect of artificial fertilizers on the quality of sugar beets, M. Wei- 

 bull (Landtmannen, 14 {1903), No. 88, pp. 601-604). — A discussion of the results of 

 fertilizer experiments with sugar beets conducted during the season of 1902 ( E. S. R. , 

 15, p. 570). — f. w. AVOLL. 



Sugar-cane experiments in Cuba, E. F. Atkins (Agr. News [ Barbados'], 3 

 (1904), No. 56, p. 179). — The tabulated results show that several Barbados seedlings 

 as well as D 95 and Demarara Seedling have given good results. Harvard 208, a 

 Cuban Seedling and a cross between a Crystalline and a Ribbon cane, contained 

 17.20 per cent sucrose, with a purity of 95. 



Sugar-cane experiments in the Leeward Islands, 1902-3, F. Watts (Imp. 

 Dept. Agr. Wed Indies, Rpt. Expts. Antigua and St. Kitt's, 1902-3, I, pp. 68).— This 

 report on experiments with varieties of sugar cane has been noted from another 

 source (E. S. R., 15, p. 577). 



