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plots of Knauer's Imperial, variously distributed, gave an average of 26 tons with 

 12.5 per cent sugar. Seven plots of Vilniorin's Richest gave 14 tons with 13.2 per 

 cent sugar. Clay soils gave 13 tons with 12.5 percent of sugar (all varieties); clay 

 loam 22 tons with 13.1 per cent sugar, and sandy loam and gravel 28 tons with 12.0 

 per cent sugar. We now have two imported varieties growing which will be tested 

 later. [Prof I. P. Roberts, director of Cornell agricultural experiment station and 

 professor of agriculture in Cornell university. 



MIDDLE STATES Comparatively little has been done in Pennsylvania. In New 

 Jersey, Maryland and Delaware, no proper tests in beet culture have been made re- 

 cently, but good beets were grown in the 70's, and there is no reason why the crop 

 should not thrive on certain soils properly fertilized. Recent Maryland tests have not 

 given promising results. 



OHIO The experiment station has done little in this line, but private tests are 

 encouraging, and thousands will be made in 1897. 



MISSOURI Jn 1890, on upland limestone clay loam of average fertility in Boone 

 county, yield per acre highest 19 tons, lowest 12, average 15; sugar, highest 18 per 

 cent, lowest 10, average 14. In 1891, same farm, yield 8 to 12 tons, average 10; sugar 

 7 to 14 per cent, average 11. In '92,tests were made in five northwestern counties, 

 northeast nine counties, southwest five, southeast one county, representing seven dif- 

 ferent varieties and 55 samples : Per cent of sugar in beets, highest 19, lowest 4. <>, 

 average 9.8; purity, 47.5 to 79.3 per cent, averaging 67.3. These varieties at the sta- 

 tion in Boone county that year yielded 9 to 12 tons per acre, mean 8.8 tons; per cent ] 

 of sugar 7 to 13, average 11 ; purity 65 to 75, average 70. Director Waters says : 

 "Results thus far not encouraging, soil much too compact and hard; Missouri lies ! 

 south of best sugar belt, mean summer temperature 6 per cent higher than in 

 counties producing this crop most successfully." We suggest much more work for j 

 several seasons before throwing Missouri out of the sugar belt. 



OKLAHOMA Little work done. Director Morrow "believes climatic conditions 

 give little prospect of success." But if beets do wonders in Pecos valley, N M, they I 

 ought to be tested thoroughly in Oklahoma. This also applies to Indian Territory. 



KAXSAS Many plots of sugar beets grown at state experiment stations at Man- 

 hattan and other parts of state, '90-2. First year not conclusive; 3(50 tests in 56 coun- 

 ties were unsatisfactory in '91, owing to climatic conditions. For '92, the station and 

 85 farmers over the state raised beets, but the season was again unfavorable and the I 

 results "cannot be regarded as lending great encouragement to the hope of the sue- I 

 cessful establishment of the beet-sugar industry in this state. There are, however, a 1 

 considerable number of samples showing a high percentage of sugar." More work i- 

 needed and evidently irrigation or other i isurance against drouth is required. 



SOUTH DAKOTA Experiments were conducted in every county, 1889-93, results in I 

 four bulletins, of which Nos 27 and 34 can still be supplied. Yield 10 to over 40 tons t 

 of beets per acre on acre plots running from 15 to 20 tons as a fair average; 

 content 9 to 20 per cent, very few samples below 12 mostly 13 to 16 per cent, 

 cmarters of all samples showing 16 percent sugar or more. Chemist J. II. Shopard 



