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within a short time, showing a range of from 8 to more than 

 17^ per cent, of sugar. These experiments were made for the 

 most part upon poorly cultivated beets, grown for feeding to 

 stock, and not for sugar making, consequently bulk, and not 

 quality, was the desideratum. It is well known that a skill- 

 ful use of manures will increase the saccharine properties of 

 beets. None of the American beets tested were grown under 

 the most favorable circumstances, yet the result of the tests 

 is entirely satisfactory. 



The following table, showing the results of a few tests, in- 

 dicates the richness of American beets : 



Kind of Beet. 

 White Sugar, 



Where raised. 



Hackensack, N. J., . 



a tt 



Roxbury, Mass., 



Percentage 

 of Sugar. 



Red Top 7 

 Mangel-Wurzel, 5 

 (i 



Green Top 

 Mangel-Wurzel, 

 n 



Yellow Globe, 



Dedham, 

 Shirley, 



Deerlsland, " 

 Chatsworth, Illinois, 



i . 9 (a) 14. 

 average 12. 



Dedham, Mass., . .... 9^. 



Deer Island, " Io rV 



Morris, Illinois, u. 



Deer Island, Mass., 



It will be seen by the above table, that the white sugar beet, 

 exclusive of those raised at Chatsworth, averaged 12-^%. 

 That those raised in Chatsworth averaged 12^$. The 

 Mangel-Wurzel average 9 T 9 ^$, and the Yellow Globe con- 

 tained 



