1893.] 



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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 pounds. f From beets weighing from 10 to 14 pounds. 



1. Soil, loam resting on clayish hard-pan, had been for several years 

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

 pounds 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 j^lanted. 



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

 compost and twice ploughed before planting. 



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

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

 manure. 



5. No details of modes of cultivation received. 



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

 been raised for two years previous to a crop of carrots, which preceded 

 the sugar beets. The beets were the second crop after the application 

 of twenty loads of stable-manure per acre. 



Composition of Canada-grown Sugar Beets. 

 [1872 and 1873.] 



