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but still gave a good analysis. The sample of Texas Red was a tremen- 

 dously large cane. Thesatnples of Honduras and Chinese bad evidently 

 inverted slightly, the others very little. 



Another lot of samples received by the Sirup Works from Thomas Les- 

 lie, Stuttgart, Ark., consisted of the following varieties : Goose-neck, 

 Honduras, and Orange. As the analysis showed all to be badly in- 

 verted, it is not worth while to give the results. 



ANALYSES OF SUGAR BEETS. 



A few samples of sugar beets were brought into the station for analy- 

 sis by farmers living near town. They were grown from imported seed 

 which had been distributed in western Kansas by Mr. Glaus Spreckels, 

 in the spring of 1888. The following table gives the results : 



Analyses of sugar beets. 



These analyses seem to furnish evidence to the effect that this part 

 of Kansas is better suited to the growth of sorghum than the sugar beet. 

 None of the samples above show a sufficiently high percentage of sugar 

 to make them available for profitable sugar manufacture, and the high 

 percentage of ash shown is remarkable ; it is doubtless due to the highly 

 saline character of the subsoils in this locality. 



ANALYSIS OF FROZEN CANE. 



On the night of October 19, most of the cane still standing in the field 

 was frozen. In continuation of the work on development a sample was 

 taken early in the morning from the plot of Link's Hybrid, and when 

 the canes were run through the mill they were found to be partially 

 frozen. The juice was analyzed, however, and the analysis is given 

 here, together with the analysis of the juice from another sample from 

 the same plot taken later in the day, after it had " thawed out." 



Analysis of frozen cane. 



This analysis is inserted more as a matter of curiosity than anything 

 else, It shows simply that part of the water in the juice was frozen^ so 



