Index 



337 



Juice of beets : 

 evaporation, 263. 

 extraction, 261. 

 purification, 262. 



Labor : 



agreement or contract, sample of, 



100. 

 and cost of beet production, 240- 



246. 

 furnished boys and girls by beets, 



4. 



problem in beet growing, 45. 

 stabilized by beet growing, 255. 

 Lachnosternaspp. (white grubs), 191. 

 Land : 



drainage, 144-147. 



values increased by beet raising, 



2. 



Laphygma frugiperda S. and A., 189. 

 Leaf-beetles, 193. 

 Leafhopper Eutettix tenella Baker, 



197. 

 Leaf-spot Cercospora beticola Sacc., 



199. 

 Legislation : 



factor in beet-sugar industry, 1. 

 in U. S., effect on sugar industry, 



19, 21. 



unfavorable to early beet in- 

 dustry, 13. 



Legumes as green-manure, 85. 

 Length of beets, effect of irrigation 



on, 141. 



Leucania unipuncta Haw., 188. 

 Leveling land for irrigation, 129. 

 Lexostege sp., 190. 

 Lifting or loosening beet im- 

 plements, 151, 152. 

 Lime : 



as a by-product of beet factory, 



181. 



as a fertilizer, 68, 81. 

 Livestock : 



feeding beet pulp to, 169-176. 

 feeding beet-tops to, 161, 162, 

 166, 167, 168. 

 z 



Livestock: Continued 

 relation to beet-sugar industry, 



158. 

 Losses in weight, harvesting beets, 



154. 

 Louisiana, sugar-cane in, 8. 



Madeira, sugar-cane introduced 



into, 7. 

 Manure : 



for sugar-beets, 82. 



how best to use, 84. 



storing of, 84. 

 Manuring : 



and rotations, 73-91. 



with green-manure, 85. 

 Marggraf first obtained beet-sugar, 



9. 



Martinique, sugar-cane in, 8. 

 Massachusetts, first beet factory 



of, 16. 



Massecuite, centrifuging, 264. 

 Maturity, indications of, in beet, 



149. 

 Mechanical harvesters or toppers, 



154. 



Medicine, use of sugar as, 6. 

 Mexico, sugar-cane in, 8. 

 Moisture : 



effect on beet growing, 40, 42. 



in the soil, 64. 



Molasses, feeding value and com- 

 position, 177-181. 

 Monosaccharids, 276. 

 Moors took sugar-cane to Spain, 7. 

 Mother beets : 



planting of, 225. 



testing for quality, 221, 222. 



Napoleon encouraged beet-sugar 



industry, 11, 12. 

 National independence increased 



by home sugar, 4. 

 Natural sugars, 277, 278. 

 Nebraska, first sugar factories of, 



19. 

 Nematode, sugar-beet, 195. 



