CULTURE OF THE SUGAR BEET. 



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producers with a view to the determination of the best varieties for cul- 

 tivators to grow in order to secure a crop of quality and quantity to be 

 satisfactory both to themselves and the manufacturer. This he conceives 

 to be a variety that will give the most sugar per acre, in condition to be 

 most easily extracted in the greatest weight. Without entering into the 

 details of his experiments we shall simply give in the following table 

 the names of the varieties of seeds grown and the results obtained : 



Sugar of 88° ex- 

 tractable. 



Varieties. 



c -- 



o 

 55 



1. Long pink tonpie 



2. Silesian. pink, fusiform 



3. Silesian. pink, fusiform 



4. Silesian. white, first choice 



5. Silesian. white, second choice. 



6. Silesian. white, acclimated.... 



7. Silesian. white, acclimated 



8. White pink top 



9. White improved 



10. White green top 



11. Pink acclimated 



12. White silesian 



13. Pink silesian 



14. Pink silesian 



1". Pink Erunswiek 



.33, 205 



34, 210 

 32,388 

 32,344 

 32, 266 



35, 060 

 34. 656 

 37. 627 

 32, 759 

 34, 210 



31, 983 



32, 674 



33, 966 

 33, 400 

 31.583 



Tons.* 

 20.1 

 18.0 

 15.9 

 11.9 

 16.0 

 15.9 

 14.9 

 16.8 

 11.4 

 15.3 

 13.8 

 14.2 

 15.1 

 17.9 

 17.5 



5 



5.70 



6.40 



7.15 



5.95 



6.10 



C. 15 



5. 75 



7.20 



5.90 



5.90 



6.10 



6.05 



5. 45 



5.40 



Per ct. 

 8.431 

 10. 766 

 12.841 

 13. 769 



10. 921 

 11. 473 

 11.194 



11. 538 



ii. yes 



10. 912 

 10. 736 

 11. 126 

 10. 825 

 9.957 

 9. 709 ' 



£4 00 



4 64 



5 64 



6 SO 



4 94 



5 16 



5 43 

 4 70 



6 92 

 4 88 



4 88 



5 10 

 5 08 

 4 36 

 4 32 



$80 00 

 83 00 

 81 00 



78 00 



79 00 ' 

 32 00 

 65 00 i 

 79 00 



78 00 | 

 73 00 

 68 00 

 73 00 | 



79 00 

 78 00 

 75 00 



Pounds. 

 4.69 

 6.84 

 8.34 

 9.27 

 6.84 

 7.34 

 6.97 

 6.50 

 8.68 

 6.89 

 6.67 

 6.93 

 6.69 

 6.02 

 5.86 



9-a 



— i 

 = > 



Tons* 

 0.94 

 1.23 

 1.33 

 1.07 

 1.09 

 1.16 

 1.04 

 1.09 

 0.99 

 1.05 

 0.92 

 0.93 

 1.01 

 1.08 

 1.02 



* Of 2,200 lbs. 



He concludes from the figures obtained and here given, that the best 

 beets to be grown, and which he considers the races of conciliation, are 

 those represented by the numbers 2, 3,5, 6, 7, 8, 10, and 14. If sold 

 accordiug to the density of the juice and the scale of values in the form 

 of arbitration adopted by the sugar manufacturers at Lille,* the grower 

 will receive a higher return per acre than with any of the other varieties 

 mentioned. 



In this connection the results of the experiments of Deherain are rel- 

 evant find interesting. He says : t 



It follows £roru our experiments and analyses that beets submitted to different 

 modes of feeding or fertilizing, preserve in tbeir development the native qualities of 

 tbe seed, i. e., tbeir race. 



In several of the experiments, pink tops and improved Yilmorins 

 were submitted to exactly the same conditions, same sterile soil, same 

 manures given in equal quantities, yet in one case while the pink top 

 contained 7.5 per cent, of sugar, the improved beet contained 1G.2. In 

 another case when the fertilizer was more nitrogenous, the richness x>f 

 the pink-top beet fell to 5.5 per cent, and the Vilniorin to only 13.4. 

 This shows clearly the influence of race upon the saccharine quality of 

 the beet. The conclusions would appear premature were these experi- 

 ments the only evidences to support them, but they are also confirmed 



* See later on in discussions of relations between tbe grower and manufacturer, 

 t Anna1e8 ngronomiques. 



