1890.] 



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D. Analyses of Sugar-producing Plants — Continued. 

 [Effect of different modes of cultivation on Electoral sugar beets.] 



* From beets weighing from l}i to 2 Ib.s. f From beefs weighing from 10 to 14 lbs. 



1. Soil, loam resting on clayish harcl-j)an, had been for several years 

 in grass. Tomatoes had been the preceding crojJ. Five hundred 

 jiounds of a phosphatic blood guano were applied before planting. 



2. Soil, a clayish loam, had been ploughed seven inches deep. A 

 liberal amount of rotten sheep-manure was placed in trenches and 

 covered by running two furrows together, thus forming a ridge on 

 which the seed were i^lanted. 



3. Soil, a gravelly loam, which had been richly manured with stable 

 compost and twice i:)loughed before j^lanting. 



4. Soil, a sandy loam, underlaid by fine sand. The seed were planted 

 on ridges, which covered trenches containing a little rotten stable- 

 manure. 



5. Xo details of modes of cultivation received. 



6. Soil, a dark, reddish-brown, rich, deej^, sandy loam. Clover had 

 been raised for two years previous to a crop of carrots, which i)receded 

 the sugar beets. The beets were the second crop after the aj)23lication 

 of twenty loads of stable-manure jDer acre. 



Composition of Canada-grown Sugar Beets. 

 [1872 and 1873.] 



