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First Requisite is Suitable Climate, 7 



Formula for Sugar-Beets, 25 



Functions of Nitrate of Soda in Sugar-Beet Growing, 5 



General Directions for Staple Crops, 54 



Heavy Clay Soils, 8 



Home Mixed Fertilizers, 43 



How Much Nitrate is Best to be Used, 40 



How Other Ammoniates Act, 23 



How to Apply Nitrate, 29 



How to Select Varieties, 1 6 



Importance of Weeding, 13 



Intensive Use of Nitrate of Soda, 21 



Introduction, 5 



Illustrations, 6, n, 17, 18, 27, 28, 32, 34, 39, 41, 51, 52 



Judicious Drainage, 9 



Land, Condition of, 36 



Large Losses of Ammonia when Ordinary Ammoniates Are Used, . . 22, 29 

 Lecture, Extracts from, Delivered by Dr. Maercker, Government Privy 



Councillor, German Agricultural Association, on the Profitable 



Cultivation of the Sugar-Beet and Other Crops by the Use of 



Nitrate of Soda, 5 



Lime in the Soil, a Requisite, 9 



Lime to Modify Clay Soils, 8 



Lime, Use of, 8 



Maturing of Beets, 33 



Map Showing Temperature Zone in Which the Sugar-Beet Attains its 



Greatest Perfection, 52 



Michigan Bulletin No. 1 97, 44 



Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 179, 43 



More Liberal Use of Fertilizers, 12 



Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station, Extract from Bulletin 



No. 73, 48 



Necessary Outlay, 1 1 , 12 



Nitrate Indispensable, 23 



Nitrate of Soda, 5, 21, 23, 29, 33 



Nitrate Nitrogen vs. Ammonia Nitrogen, 46 



Nitrate of Soda as a Fertilizer for Beets, by E. S. Bumstead, President 



of State Beet Growers' Association, 50 



Nitrate Used With Judgment, 20 



Nitrate the Most Suitable, 19 



Nitrogen of Nitrate of Soda Most Effective, 19, 39 



Nitrogenous Food Necessary, 21 



Ohio Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 132, Sugar-Beet Investigations, 



by John W. Ames, 47 



Phosphoric Acid, 14 



Practical Suggestions, 34 



Price of Beet Tops, 33 



Profitable Cultivation of Sugar-Beets, . . 5 



Progress of the Beet Sugar Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 49 



Residual Effects of Manures and Fertilizers, 33 



