INDEX. 



Ad valorum principle in the purchase 



of sugar in the beet, 202 

 Advantages, apparent, of barnyard ma- 

 nure, 124 

 gained by cultivation in hills, 119, 



120 

 of harvesting after Ware's idea, 195 

 of planting seed in lozenges, 166 

 of the beet sugar industry to the 

 farmer, 58 

 Aerial transportation, 225-232 

 Age of seed that will not germinate, 155 

 Agricultural Department U S., 43 



produce, annual yield for the United 



States, 56 

 products of Valenciennes, France, 

 61 

 Agriculture, need of a scientific, in the 



United States, 123 

 Agriote, 276 

 Air in germinating, 157 

 Albumen, 81 



of seed, 165 

 Albuminoids, 132 



Alcohol, first suggestions as to, in the 

 beet, 25 

 from beets, 61 

 Alsace, 294 

 Altica, 276 



Alumina, soils of, 107 

 Alvarado Company, 42 

 American soils adapted to beet culture, 



101 

 America, underground house suitable 



for preservation of the beets in, 256 

 Ammonia, phosphate of, experiments 

 ■with, 161 

 solution for the destruction of Me- 



lolonthas, 269 

 sulphate of, 135 

 Amount of humidity before germination, 



159 

 Analysis of French soils, 104 

 of leaves, 93 

 of Prussian soils, 102-3 

 of root of the beet, 92-93 

 of the beet, 83 

 21 



Analysis — 



of various straws, 296 

 Analyzing the crop, advantage of, 124 

 Animal phosphate, advantages of, 137 

 Annales de Chemie, 26 

 Arabian silos, 237 



Archard, early suggestions and writings 

 of, in regard to the beet, 26, 27, 

 35, 37 

 honorable conduct of, 26, 37 

 Argillo-calcareous soils, 108 

 Argout, Comte d', proposals for taxation 

 of beet sugar in France, 29 

 sandy soils, 108 

 Arsenate of potassa, 161 

 Ash of the beet, 142, 144 

 Ashes of the beet and saccharine ele- 

 ments, 144 

 Asparagine, 81 

 Atomaria lineris, 271, 272 

 Austria, beet sugar in, 37-38 



factory in, in 1802, 37 

 France, Germany, and Russia, su- 

 gar beet industry in, xv 

 taxation of sugar in, 38 

 Author's preparation for this work, xi, 



xiii 

 Average mean, 163 



Baird, Henry Carey, 282 

 Ballon, M., on sprouts of the beet, 241 

 Barbet, M., analysis of sprouts, 239 

 Barnyard manure, xviii, 124, 127 



and chemical fertilizers, com- 

 parative results of, 140 

 Barruel, 27, 28 

 Basic phosphate of lime, 136 

 Basset, M , 74 



Basset's theory of germination, 158 

 Beach, Tyler, 42 

 Beet, analysis of, 83, 84, 86 



and beet sugar, books on, in French 

 and German, xii 



as food for animals, 68 



as food for man, 63 



ash of, 142-144 



book of Abb6 Commerel on, 26 



