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INDEX. 



New Hampshire, condition of sugar-beet culture in 260, 261 



monthly average of temperature and rainfall in 53, 54 



resume of results obtained in 1879 269 



New York, monthly average of temperature and rainfall in 57-62 



Nitrates, their influences in fertilizing compounds 102,103 



Nitrogen, percentage of, in beets 78-89 



relation between content of, in beets and in juice 79 



Observations on preparing soil for beet culture 109 



Ohio, monthly average of temperature and rainfall in 63-64 



Pagnoul, M., discoveries of 104 



his experimental field, manuring of 286 



results of his analyses of beets '. 285, 286 



Paris Exposition of 1878, character of beets exhibited by French seed producers 94 



Pellet, M., his solution, how to prepare it 85, 86 



interesting notions of 104, 105 



Pennsylvania, monthly average of temperature and rainfall in 63 



Percentage of ash in beet 79, 80 



nitrogen in normal matter 78 



opaque zones in 76 



sugar in slices of beet 78 



juice of beet 71-83,145-150 



translucid zones in beet 76 



Petermann, Dr., analyses of relative value of pulps 147, 148 



Phosphoric acid, percentage of, in forage beet 88 



relation of, to percentage of sugar in the beet 80 



results of Professor Joulie's researches 80 



Pink-top beet, description of 74 



Pipe lines for transportation of juice 131-134 



in Fiance, cost of constructing 135, 136 



Preparation of the soil, discussion on, in the sugar congress at Compeigne, May, 1877 107, 108 



Process, continuous and intermittent, cost of production by '. 28 



Processes and economies in the manufacture of beet sugar 131-156 



Production from 1835 to 1879 in France 30 



number of tons in France in 1877 and 1878 29 



Profits, per ton of roots worked 155 



Pulps, French, analyses of 146-149 



feeding of, to cattle 148,149 



relative value of - 147, 148 



Purging and clarifying, cost of machinery for 153 



Questions for information sent by the Department of Agriculture to beet growers and sugar 



manufacturers of the United States 181-183 



Rainfall and temperature in all parts of Austria 42 



Belgium 36-38 



Bohemia 39-41 



California 68,69 



Connecticut 56, 57 



Dakota 68 



France 34, 49-51 



Galicia 42 



Illinois 64 



Indiana 64 



Iowa 67 



Maine 51-53 



Massachusetts 55, 56 



Michigan 65, 66 



Minnesota 67,68 



New Hampshire 53, 54 



New York 57,62 



Ohio 63,64 



Pennsylvania 63 



Rheinthal 44,45 



Rhode Island 56 



Saxony, Silesia, &c 43 



Thuringia 45-48 



UnitedStates 51-69 



Vermont 54-55 



Westphalia 41 



"Wisconsin 67-68 



Rasping works at Cambrai, description of 134, 135 



Refuse of the distillery 147 



Relation between nitrogen and sugar contents of beet 78 



between proprietors or tenants of farms and laborers in the beet growing districts of 



France 123,124 



Rheinthal, monthly average of temperature and rainfall in 44, 45 



Rhode Island, monthly average of temperature and rainfall in 56 



Ridicule, attempts of the English Government at ". 26 



Roots, best temperature for preserving 115 



distance between the rows in planting 112, 113 



of the beet, number of zones in 76 



pulling the 114 



sugar in 87 



Russia, Czar of, gift of $38,895 for beet sugar 24,25 



first beet-sugar factory founded in 24 



Salts, distribution ot, in beets 78 



Saturation, cost of machinery for 153 



Saxony, Silesia, &c, monthly average of temperature and rainfall 43 



Schoois established in France for beet-sugar manufacture 21-24 



