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all varieties. The lowest per cent rejected on account of low 

 sugar content was 0.9 per cent, and the highest was 7.0 per cent. 

 When we consider that when these same strains at their last 

 selection required the rejection of around 50 per cent and over, 

 it needs no erudition to discover the remarkable progress made. 

 Also we made the largest number of individual analyses this 

 year that has been made in this work. This year the mother 

 beets averaged over 17 per cent sugar in the beet. This fact 

 marked another distinct advance in our quest for a high and uni- 

 form percentage of sugar. 



"For 1911, owing to the fact that we now had some very good 

 strains well on their way toward our ideals, other phases of the 

 work are undertaken. ... In analyzing beets for mothers we 

 were able to reject all under 18 per cent sugar in the beet this year. 

 Here is a mighty advance. With this high standard the reject 

 per cent was low, running around 10 per cent or under. In no 

 variety did the per cent sugar in the beet as determined by a 

 composite analysis in which every beet in the row was analyzed 

 fall below 20 per cent. The highest average was 21.5 per cent; 

 even the rejects averaged well over 15 per cent. 



"We have been looking all these years for a sugar beet 

 that will give 25 per cent sugar in the beet. And this year 

 we not only found several that were that high but we surely 

 caught a big one, 25.4 per cent. Perhaps they grow richer. We 

 do not know. 



"As for tonnage, the different varieties gave from 20 to 24 

 tons per acre. Owing to the great interest at this time there is 

 appended a table giving a summary of the results secured along 

 commercial lines during 1911 and 1912. The table is self-explan- 

 atory. The pounds of sugar per acre were calculated by weighing 

 the topped beets. Then this weight was multiplied by the per 

 cent sugar in the beet. In factory practice around 4 per cent of 

 the sugar in the beet is not recovered as sugar. Some of it goes 



