Factors Affecting Quality of Beets 



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experimentation, has pointed out how the weather, par- 

 ticularly the temperature, affects the percentage of sugar 

 in beets. In this connection, he shows that a high sugar- 

 content usually indicates a high purity also. 



Tables VI and VII summarize the results of five years' 

 experiments with sugar-beets raised under widely dif- 

 ferent climatic conditions in the United States. The 

 author points out the fact that temperature, or, in other 



TABLE VII. GENERAL AVERAGES OP METEOROLOGICAL DATA 

 (May to October) FOR THE FIVE YEARS, 1900-1904 



Stations where Irrigation Was not Used 



Stations where Irrigation Was Practiced 



1 Three years' data. 



2 Two years' data ; 1904 data for March to September. 



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