INDEX 



Achard produced first commercial 



sugar, 10. 

 Acid soils, 68. 



Adaptations of beets, climatic, 37. 

 Agriculture stabilized by beets, 251. 

 Air in the soil, 62. 

 Alkali, effect on beets, 66, 67. 

 Arabian sugar, first record of, 7. 

 Army-worms, 187-189. 

 Arundo saccharifera, 268. 

 Availability of plant food in soil, 



69. 



Bacteria in the soil, 70. 

 Bacterium teutlium Met., 202. 

 Bamboo as source of sugar, 7. 

 Beet: 



by-products : 



composition of, 160. 

 relation to live-stock industry, 

 158. 

 contracts : 



advantages of, 92. 

 types of, 94. 

 crown and top, proportions, 159. 

 cultivators, 124. 

 culture : 



improves labor problem, 255. 

 increases business, 256. 

 diseases, 198-204. 

 dumps, 156. 

 farmer, personal requirements of, 



50. 

 flower and seed description, 34. 

 harvesting implements, 151-154. 

 insect pests of, 184-198. 

 land, depth to plow, 108. 

 leaf hopper, 197. 



Beet: — Continued 



molasses as a by-product, 177- 



181. 

 plows, 151, 152, 154. 

 pulp, 168-176. 

 dry, 169, 173. 

 loss in siloing, 168. 

 racks, types of, 155. 

 -root aphis (.Pemphigus betae 



Doane), 194. 

 -rust ( Uromyces betae Kuhn) , 202. 

 seed: 



amount and depth to sow, 115. 

 importation of, 216-219. 

 storage of sugar in, 29, 30. 

 -sugar extraction, opposition to, 



10. 

 -sugar factories, 3. 

 of America, 312. 

 -sugar industry, 1. 



causes of early failures, 18. 

 development of, 6. 

 legislation on, in U. S., 19, 21. 

 Beetles harmful to beets, 193. 

 Beet-raising : 



and community welfare, 250-257. 

 increased land value by, 2. 

 Beets : 



adapted to irrigation farming, 



126. 

 and national independence, 257. 

 botanical grouping, 22. 

 climatic adaptation, 37, 43. 

 commercial fertilieer for, 77-81. 

 cultivation of, 123. 

 early history of, 8. 

 economic adaptation, 44. 

 educational value of culture, 254. 



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