116 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 
Quality of sugar beets. 
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eee ee ee cleanse 1.10 73.64 | 88.93 15. 82 11.64 | 91.37 1.079 | Barn-yard 
i LES spit Le) eS ee ae 94 42. 26 88. 62 20. 01 8. 46 90. 26 1.103 | None 
A vee meat eet cla'at 1.38 52.72 84.7 15. 42 8.13 85. 87 1.080 | Stable 
Deena ae woes cee lcls PAL 54. 30 83. 30 12. 27 6. 66 2.49 1.071 | None. 
1D ee 97 | 71.80} 82.79) 10.20 7.32 | 86.65 1. 055 | Stable. 
Mean <\..)s25 25% MSS2l| Soeae ese cca es |e | 8.44) 89.35 |........ 
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1 Steeteet-cocce sos Se 1.26 | 60.34] 50.34 Wood 4.39 | 78.49 1.072 | No report. 
eco arocccuss siseccje.cs 2.27 71.13} 45.61 3.12 2.22 | 94.27) +1.036 Do. 
lem wacowaccerncacc.ce 5 eye 75. 93 43. 62 2. 67 2.02 | 45.83 1.030 | Night soil and ashes, 
Bel (aC etre EOE 1.95 67.38 | 36.51 4.18 | 2.82] 72.44 1.032 | None. 
BU erase ee ao wenacecen 4.2 60.54 | 28.67 2.95 1.78 | 74.72 1.056 | No report. 
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The roots in the above list which come up to the requirement for a 
good sugar-beet, as regards the amount of foreign matter which accom- 
panies the sugar in the juice, viz., not more than 20 per cent. of the total 
matter in solution, are the following, placed in the order of their com- 
parative value: 
No. 3, which contains 88.93 per cent. of sugar in soluble matter of the juice. 
No. 1, which contains 83.62 per cent. of sugar in soluble matter of the juice. 
No. 4, which contains 84.77 per cent. of sugar in soluble matter of the juice. 
No. 5, which contains 83.30 per cent. of sugar in soluble matter of the juice. 
No. 11, which contains 82.79 per cent. of sugar in soluble matter of the juice. 
Next to these in value are four specimens, which contain more than 20 
per cent. and less than 25 per cent. of impurity in the soluble matter of 
the juice, viz: 
No. 7, which contains 79.60 per cent. of sugar in the soluble matter of the juice. 
No. 10, which contains 78.38 per cent. of sugar in the soluble matter of the juice. 
No. 2, which contains 78.37 per cent. of sugar in the soluble matter of the juice. 
No. 8, which contains 77.91 per cent. of sugar in the soluble matter of the juice. 
The pcorest five specimens are Nos. 18, 29, 31, 27, 30, and compare 
with the best five as follows: 
No. 18, which contains 50.34 per cent. of sugar in the soluble matter of the juice. 
No. 29, which contains 45.61 per cent. of suga ar in the soluble matter of the juice. 
No. 31, which contains 43.62 per cent. of sugar in the soluble matter of the juice. 
No. 97 which contains 36.51 per cent. of sugar in the soluble matter of the juice. 
No. 30, which contains 28.67 per cent. of sugar in the soluble matter of the juice. 
It is greatly to be regretted that we have been unable to secure full 
returns from those who sent beets for analysis, since the cumulative tes- 
timony thus seciired from sections so remote wouid, from the large num- 
ber of beets analyzed, have given us substantial data for conclusion as 
to several points of very great practical importance. 
The following conclusions, however, appear obvious from the above 
results: 
1. The best five samples received were in three cases manured with 
stable manure, while the other two received no manure or fertilizer 
vhatever. 
