TABLE. OF CONTENTS, 



APPENDIX A. 



Page. 

 Cuts shewing some of the more essential apparatus and machinery used ahroad 

 in the production of heet sugar 166 



APPENDIX B. 



History and progress of the culture of the sugar beet, and the manufacture of 

 sugar therefrom, in the United States of America 167 



APPENDIX C. 



Preliminary report upon the condition of the culture of the sugar beet near 

 Portland, Me 171 



APPENDIX D. 



Final report on the condition of the beet-sugar industry in New England under 

 the direction of the Maine Beet Sugar Compauy, of Portlaud, Me 181 



APPENDIX E. 



Points for consideration with regard to the introduction of the sugar beet, and 

 the manufacture of beet sugar in the Northwest as compared with the beet- 

 sugar producing couutries of Europe, by J. D. Fredericksen 275 



APPENDIX F. 

 The physiological functions of the nitrates and phosphates in the sugar beet . . . 281 



APPENDIX G. 

 Meteorology and the growth of the beet, by Marie Davy 284 



LIST OF ILLUSTEATIONS. 



Fig. 1. White Silesian beet 74 



Fig. 2. Imperial beet 74 



Fig. 3. Green top beet 74 



Fig. 4. Pink top beat 74 



Fig. 5. Gray top beet 74 



Fig. 6. Vilmorin's improved beet 75 



Fig. 7. Anatomical structure of the root 76 



Maps showing the line of limit of meteorological conditions favorable to beet- 

 root culture in the United States 68 



Cuts showing some of the more essential apparatus and machinery used abroad 



in the production of beet-root sugar 166 



