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INDEX. 



Deherain's experiments with manures, 



145 

 Delahayes, 171 

 Delaware Beet Sugar Co., 43 

 Delessat, beet sugar made by, in France 



in 1812. 28 

 Delesse, 27 



Demi-bouteuse sugar beet, 70 

 Density as a guide for the selection of 



seed, 154 

 Deprez & Co. the largest seed growers 



in France, 181 

 Deprez et Fils, agricultural laboratory 



of, 72 

 Deprez, improved, 72 

 Depth for sowing, 164 

 Deremacausie, 242 

 Dervaux beet, 73 

 Dervaux, M., method based on density, 



180 

 Desiccation of the beet, 258 

 Dextro-glucose, 51 ^ 



Difficulty of introducing the beet sugar 

 industry in the United States, 62 

 of selection of seed, 154 

 Diptera, 261, 280, 281 

 Disease, 282 



and insects, 263-291 

 of spongiole, 285 

 Distance for the roots, 165-168 

 Distillation from the beet, advantages 

 of, 61 

 systems of, 304-305 

 Distilleries, pulp from, 303-307 

 Dombasle, Mathieu, 67, 167 



on the use of leaves as food, 312 

 Drainage, Payen and Richard's method 



of, 289 

 Drills, cultivation in, 111-117 

 Dubrumfaut, M., 82, 86, 83 



theory of, the sugar in the beet, 86 

 Duflfrine Brothers, road locomotive, 215 

 Dumas, M., xi 



on " brown penetration" in the beet, 



284 

 on the use of leaves for food, 312 

 Dutch standard, 50 



Early organization of the factories for 



the purchase of the beets in Germany, 



35 

 East Indies yield of cane sugar per acre, 



50 

 Ecole Centrale des Arts, Agriculture et 



Manufactures, xi 

 Economical transportation, 215-236 



type of silo, 262 

 Egyptian silos, 237 



Electorale sugar beet, 68 



Elements of the soil taken up by one 



hectare of beets, 95 

 Elwood, N. J., 42 

 Embryo of seed, 163 

 Enemies of the sugar beet, xxiii, 263- 



291 

 England, consumption of sugar in, 46 

 Engrais, M. Joulie's, 151 

 Europe, beet sugar industry in, 25-40 

 labor bestowed on the soil in, 58 

 production of beet sugar in, 1877, 

 8, 40 

 Evaporation of water in the beet for 



desiccation, 258 

 Examination of the beet, 74-90 

 Exhaustion of American soils, 207 



of the soil, 123 

 Experiments of Corenwinder, 98 



of Petterman, 167 

 External qualities of the beet, 87-90 

 Extraction of sugar from the cane with 

 cane-mills, 50 



Factories in Germany, where situated, 

 36 

 number of, in Holland, 39 

 Farmers, advantage of the beet sugar 

 industry to, 58 

 of Belgium, 161 

 Farms near Magdeburg, 200 

 Feeding of diseased beets to cattle, 

 291 

 qualities of the beet, 293-312 

 early book on, 26 

 of the leaves, 311-312 

 of the pulp, 297-307 

 Ferme de la Briche, xxii, 303, 304 



preservation of the pulp at, 

 308-309 

 Fertilizer, complete, 127 



beneath the surface, 141 

 upon the surface, 141 

 Corenwinder's experiments with, 



150 

 from the mines of Strassfurth, 137 

 M. Coiguet's, 150-151 

 M. Joulie's, 151 

 mineral, 131-140 

 molasses as a, 139 

 nitric, 131 

 phosphoric, 135 

 potassic, 137 

 Fertilizers, xviii, xix 

 calcareous, 138 

 Fertilization of flowers of the beet, 187 

 Final results from bad cultivation, 59 

 Flax, 213 



