should not share in those advantages. On the contrary, we Nitrate of 



Soda for 

 Sugar-BeetJ 



shall rejoice to see our fellow-agriculturists in the east * 



participate in the blessings of the sugar-beet industry. 



Gentlemen, after these introductory remarks, I pass on 

 to my proper theme, and I shall first of all have to discuss 

 what is requisite generally for the remunerative cultivation 

 of the sugar-beet. 



The first requisite is a suitable climate. ^.. 



TT i j j i r Climate. 



U pon this 1 do not need to enlarge, tor you 



are in the midst of sugar-beet growing districts, and your 

 climate will not essentially differ from that in which the 

 sugar factories of Culmsee, Kruschwitz, Nakel, Wreschen, 

 and others, have called into existence a remunerative cultiva- 

 tion of the beet. There can be no question that your climate 

 is just as well suited to its remunerative cultivation, and to 

 the production of beets as rich, if not richer, in sugar. 

 Your climatic conditions, indeed, are such that you have a 

 later spring. According to the data with which Major 

 Hintze has furnished me, it may be taken that spring com- 

 mences with you about ten days later than with us ; but 

 you make up for that afterwards by a hotter sun and a 

 higher summer temperature ; and there can be no doubt 

 that just this temperature exercises a very favorable influence 

 upon the contents of the beet in sugar ; so that, here in the 

 east although we formerly doubted it you are able to 

 produce beets which are not only not poorer in sugar than 

 in the neighboring districts for which a monopoly of the 

 cultivation of the crop was once claimed, but beets which 

 are probably even somewhat richer in sugar, and which, in 

 any case, possess as high a percentage of sugar as any factory 

 can require ; so that the question of climate is completely 

 disposed of. 



In the second place, there must be available the kind of 

 soil suitable for the cultivation of the sugar-beet^ and we shall 

 therefore have to enter upon the discussion of the question: 

 What is essentially the best soil for beets ? 



Gentlemen, if you put this question ^ est 

 to me, I am in a difficulty as to what reply ^ ., 

 to make. For our ideas as to the necessary 

 qualities of a soil for the growth of the sugar-beet 

 have changed during the last ten years in a remarkable 

 manner. Formerly we believed that we should never be 



