148 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



partly chosen from varieties sent on by the United States 

 Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C. The fol- 

 lowing varieties were seeded May 17 and 19 ; — 



Kows. 



No. 1. Excelsior Sugar Beet, 15 



2. Improved Imperial Sugar Beet, 6 



3. Vilmorin Sugar Beet, 14 



4. Lane's Sugar Beet, 9 



5. New Market Gardener Beet (red), 1 



C. Eclipse Beet (red), 1 



7. Osborn's Selected Beet (red), 1 



8. Yellow Danver's Carrot, ....•.., 90 



One row was planted with Saxony sugar beet, from our 

 crop of 1887, for the purpose of raising seeds for our own 

 consumption during the coming season. 



The young plants appeared in all cases above ground 

 May 28 ; they were in every instance, whenever necessary, 

 thinned out to have them eight inches apart in the rows ; 

 none were transplanted. 



The averao-e number of roots in a row was at the end of 

 the season as follows : — 



Plants. 



Excelsior Sugar Beet, 89 



Improved Imperial Sugar Beet, 96 



Vilmorin Sugar Beet, 119 



Lane's Sugar Beet, 105 



New Market Gardener Beet, 07 



Eclipse Beet, 118 



Osborn's Selected Beet, 122 



The entire yield of each of these varieties of beet roots 

 without tops amounted to, — 



1,870 pounds in fifteen rows of Excelsior. * 



1,070 pounds in six rows of Improved Imperial. 

 3,355 pounds in fourteen rows of Vilmorin. 

 1,250 pounds in nine rows of Lane's. 



125 pounds in one row of New Market Gai'dener. 



150 pounds in one row of Eclipse. 



130 pounds in one row of Osborn's Selected. 



The Vilmorin sugar beet exceeds in our case in yield all 

 other sugar beets, allowing an equal number of rows with an 

 equal number of plants. The yield per acre, with rows 

 three feet and three inches apart, at our rate of production 

 would amount to 22.1'5 tons. 



