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Index 



Beets: — Continued 



first used as stock food, 9. 



hauling to market, 155. 



plant food requirements of, 74. 



preparation for thinning, 117. 



promote good farming, 252. 



shape, effect of irrigation on, 143. 



size, irrigation applications for, 

 136. 



soil adaptation, 43. 



storing at factory, 258. 



suggestive rotations for, 89, 90. 



time to irrigate, 133-136. 



time to prepare seed-bed for, 106. 



washing and weighing at factory, 

 260. 



water requirements of, 131. 

 Beet-sugar : 



industrj'^ : 



recent developments, 20, 21. 

 successes in U. S., first, 19. 



production of U. S. by states, 322. 



production of various countries, 

 326. 

 Beet tops, 158-168. 



composition of, 159, 160. 



hay from, 162. 



methods of feeding, 161, 162. 



silage from, feeding, 166-168. 



siloing, 163-166. 



value of, as food, 159. 



yield of, 158, 159. 

 Bengal, sugar-cane in, 7. 

 Beta vulgaris species of plants, 22. 

 Blister-beetles, 187. 

 Blocking and thinning beets, 118. 

 Botanical grouping of beets, 22. 

 Boys and girls benefited by beet 



raising, 4. 

 Brazil, sugar-cane in, 7. 

 Breeding sugar-beet seed, 221. 

 Business : 



increases with beet culture, 256. 



stabilized by beet raising, 4. 

 By-products of : 



seed production, 228. 



sugar-beets, 158-183. 



California, first successful beet 



factories, 19. 

 Cane-sugar (see sugar-cane). 

 Capital requirements of beets, 48. 

 Caradrina (laphygma) exigua Hbn., 



187. 

 Cattle, feeding beet by-products to, 

 161, 166, 167, 170-174, 178- 

 180. 

 Centrifuging the massecuite, 264. 

 Cercospora heticola Sacc, 199. 

 Children profit from beet cialture, 



255. 

 China, sugar-cane in, 7. 

 Chlorophyll, 28. 

 Chrysamelidae, 193. 

 Classification of soils, 57. 

 Climate, effect on quality of beets, 



208, 209. 

 Climatic adaptation of beets, 37-43. 

 Commercial : 



extraction of sugar, first, 10. 

 fertilizer for beets, 77-81. 

 production of beet seed, 223. 

 use of sugar, first, 8. 

 Common army-worm, 188. 

 Community benefited by beet 



raising, 4. 

 Competing crops of beets, 44. 

 Composition of ; 

 sugar, 276. 

 sugar-beet, 160. 

 by-products, 160. 

 tops, 159. 

 Consumption of : 

 sugar in U. S., 5. 

 world sugar supply, 284-286. 

 Contracts : 



for labor on sugar-beets, sample 



of, 100. 

 to raise beets : 



advantages of, 92. 

 items included in, 93. 

 samples of, 95-100. 

 tj-pes of, 94. 

 Correlation, size and sugar content 

 of beet, 33. 



