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INDUSTRIES DEPKNDING ON PLANT PRODUCTS 



down with his wife in the parental home. The old people continue to 

 manage the holding for some years. The young wife brings as her dowry 

 some land and often a httle money. These plots are worked along with 

 the parents' holding to the advantage of the young couple who thus begin 

 at once to increase their property. 



II i6 -Statistical Report on the Influence of Distance from Market on the Value of 



Rural Property in Missouri, U S. A. — JOhnson, O. R. in Freeman's Farmer, Vol. 70, 

 No. 5, p. II. North Jakina, Wash., May, 1916. 



The statistical report, by the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, on 650 holdings in Johnson count^^ was designed to show within 

 what limits distance from market affected the value of the holdings, and has 

 given the following results : 



The low unit value of the 25 holdings in group V is largely due to the 

 poor quality of the soil ; this factor is here more important, in fixing the va- 

 lue, than distance from market. 



AGRICUIvTURAIv INDUSTRIES. 



I II 7 - The Use of Cider Apples and Cane Sugar in a Beet Sugar Distillery. — gajllard, 



E. in Comptcs Rendus de V Academic d'A jiculture de France, Vol. II. No. 24, pp. 676-681. 

 Paris, 191 6. 



At the beet sugar distillery of Oibcment , in the department of the 

 Somme , experiments were carried out on the mixing of cider apples 

 and cane sugar with sugar beet, or sugar beet molasses. 



The apples were treated in two ways ; they were either mixed with su- 

 gar beets in the washing machine and then cut into the usual long narrow 

 slices and handled as beets, or they were put into the diffusion cylinders 

 alone in the form of thin flat slices ^e i^- thick. As apples contain very little 



