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Index 



Nitrogen fertilizer for beets, 74, 78. 

 Noctuidae (cutworms), 190. 

 Number of beet factories in U. S. 

 and Europe, 3. 



Oliver de Serres records sweet- 

 ness of beets, 9. 



Oospora scabies Thaxt., 201. 



Organic matter in the soil, 63. 



Origin of soils, 56. 



Osmosis, 27. 



Oxnard Brothers, early interest in 

 beet industry, 19. 



Pemphigus betae Doane, 194. 



Persia, sugar-cane in, 7. 



Pests and diseases of beets, 184- 



204. 

 Phoma, 204. 

 Phoma betae Frank, 200. 

 Phosphoric acid fertilizer for beets, 



74, 77, 79. 

 Pigs, feeding beet by-products to, 

 167, 168, 175, 176, 180, 181. 

 Plant-breeding, aid of to beeta, 6. 

 Plant-food : 

 in the soil, 69. 

 requirements of beets, 74. 

 Planting : 



beet seed, 113-115. 

 mothers or stecklinge, 225. 

 Pliny on sugar in Arabia and 



India, 7. 

 Plowing : 



best depths for beets, 108. 

 reasons for thoroughness in, 104. 

 time of, for beets, 106. 

 Population increases with beet 



culture, 256. 

 Portugal, King of, dispersed sugar- 

 cane, 7. 

 Potash fertilizer for beets, 74, 77, 



80. 

 Precipitation, effect on beet grow- 

 ing, 42. 

 Preparation of beet land for irriga- 

 tion. 129. 



Preparing seed-bed, effect of pre- 

 vious crop, 103. 

 Price of land increased by beet 



raising, 2. 

 Prices of first sugar, 8. 

 Profits from seed production, 230. 

 Prosperity follows beet culture, 256. 

 Puddled soil. 62. 

 Pulp from sugar-beets, 168-176. 



dried, 169. 



loss in siloing, 168. 

 Pythium, 204. 



Quality of beets, factors effecting, 

 205-212. 



Rainfall, effect on beet growing, 



40, 42. 

 Rhizoctonia of beet, 203, 204. 

 Ripening : 



before digging time, danger of, 



150. 

 indications of, 149. 

 period, water requirements, 150. 

 Rolling beet seed-bed. 111, 116, 



118. 

 Root-rot or Rhizoctonia, 203. 

 Root tips and waste sugar-beets 



for feeding, 176. 

 Rotations, 86-91. 



Salt as a fertilizer, 81. 



Sampling and taring beets on 



deliverj% 156. 

 San Domingo, sugar cane in, 8. 

 Scab of beet {Oospora scabies Thaxt.) , 



201. 

 Science, aid to beet-sugar industry, 



6. 

 Sedentary soils, 58. 

 Seed: 



amount to sow, 114, 115. 

 and flower of sugar-beet, 34. 

 -bed: 



final preparation. 111. 

 preparation and planting, 103- 

 116. 



