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Page. 



Temperature, conditions of, to be studied 35 



best, for preserving roots in fresb state 115 



monthly average of, in Austria 42 



Belgium 36-38 



Bohemia 39, 41 



California 68* 69 



Connecticut 5fij 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 



Okio 63,64 



Pennsylvania 63 



Eheinthal 44,45 



Rhode Island 56 



Saxonv, Silesia, &c 43 



Thuringia 45, 48 



United States 51,69 



"Vermont 54, 55 



"Westphalia 41 



Wisconsin 67,68 



of the soil at the time of sowing 34 



Tests of percentage of sugar in roots 73 



Tons, cost of working 1,000 and upward in France 28 



of stable manure per acre necessary 166 



Transmittal, letter of 5,6 



Trenches, temporary, for preserving the roots 115, 116 



United States, culture of sugar beet and manufacture of sugar in 167-170, 181-275 



monthly average of temperature and rainfall in 51-69 



Varieties, best, for culture 93, 94 



of beet grown in France 71-94 



Vermont, monthly average of temperature and rainfall in 54, 55 



Vilmorin's directions for plowing 107-1 09 



improved beet, description of 75 



analysis of 89 



method of improving beets 90, 91 



Violette, M., formula for estimating sugar in solutions 85 



"Walkhoff, M., his method of improving the beet 92 



"Water and steam machinery, cost of 154 



Weight of beet 71 



of leaves of beets 72 



"Westphalia, monthly average of temperature and rainfall 41 



"White Silesian beet, description of 73 



"Wine trade of France, its downfall 13 



"Wisconsin, monthly average of temperature and rainfall 66, 67 



Zones, number of, in the root 76 



opaque, percentage of, in the beet 76 



translucid, percentage of, in the beet 76 



