Index 



335 



Cosaettes. 261. 

 Cost: 



and profit on beets, relation to 



acres raised, 237-240. 

 of growing beets, 231-249. 

 based on time, 240-246. 

 in various sections, 234. 

 of producing beet seed, 230. 

 Crop : 



competition of sugar-beets, 44. 

 rotations : 



principles governing, 88. 

 reasons for, 86. 

 Crowns and tops of beets, pro- 

 portion of, 159. 

 Crystallizing beet sirup at factory, 



264. 

 Cuba, sugar-cane in, 8. 

 Cultivating Ijeets, 123. 

 Cultivation previous to thinning, 



118. 

 Curly-top or curly-leaf of beets, 



197. 

 Cutworms, 190. 

 Cyprus, sugar-cane in, 7. 



Damping-off disease, 204. 

 Deep plowing best for beets, 2. 

 Depth to plow beet land, 109. 

 Development of beet-sugar in- 

 dustry, 6. 

 Digging : 



processes of, 151. 



time to begin, 149, 150. 

 Dingley Act of 1897, favorable 



effect, 19. 

 Disaccharids, 276. 

 Diseases of beets, 198-204. 

 Drainage : 



reasons for, effects of, 144, 145. 



system, installing, 147. 

 Drains, kinds of, 146. 

 Dried sugar-beet pulp, 169. 

 Drought in early fall, danger from, 



150. 

 Drying, effect on quality of beets, 

 211. 



Dyer sugar-beet factory first success 

 in U.S.. 19. 



Economic adaptation of beets, 44. 

 Elateridae (Wireworms), 192. 

 Euphrates valley, sugar-cane in, 



7. 

 European : 



beet-sugar industry, early, 15. 



countries, early sugar supply, 8. 



introduction of sugar-cane, 7. 



sugar factories, number of, 3. 

 Eutettix tenella Baker, 197. 

 Extracting beet juice in factory, 



261. 

 Extraction of beet-sugar : 



first method, 9. 



percentage recovered now, 266. 



Factories : 



for beets, early failures in U. S., 



16-18. 

 in U. S. and Europe, 3. 

 Factors affecting quality of beets, 



205-212. 

 Factory : 



essential factors for success, 52. 

 first in U. S., 16. 



process of sugar making, 258-268. 

 Failures of early beet industry in 



U. S., 16-18. 

 Fall army- worm, 189. 

 Fall plowing for sugar-beets, 106. 

 Farming improved by beet culture, 



252. 

 Farm manure : 

 conserving, 84. 

 for sugar-beets, 82. 

 Feeding : 



beet pulp to : 

 cattle, 170-174. 

 horses, 175. 

 pigs, 175. 

 sheep, 174, 175. 

 beet tops : 



methods, 161, 162. 

 silage from, 166-168. 



