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INDEX. 



Hoeing, 112 



effect produced by, 115 



when seeds are in lines, 114 

 Hoffmann's analysis of the beet, 84 

 Holland, beet sugar in, 39 



number of factories in, 39 



taxation of sugar in, 39 

 Hollowuess in beets, 290 

 Horses fed on beets in the Palatinate, 



294 

 Humboldt, 161 

 Humidity, 156, 159 



amount of, necessary before germi- 

 nation, 159 

 Hydrochloric acid for the preservation 

 of leaves, 201 



Imperiale, 67, 68 

 Improved Deprez, 72 



Vilmorin, 70, 71 

 Improvement of the seed of the beet, 



176-188 

 Indian corn, 213 

 Insects, analysis of, 270 



and diseases, 263-291 



destruction of, with lime water, 268 

 Isnard, 27 



Joulie, M., engrais, 151 



experiments of, on phosphoric fer- 

 tilizers, 136 

 Juice in pipes, 232-235 



preservation of, 259 



Knauer, M., 67, 177 



machine for subdividing the roots 

 into piles, 178 

 Koechlin's experiments in transplanting, 

 170 



Lancaster County, Pa., crops of tobacco, 



56 

 Large seed, effect produced by, 152 

 Leaves, author's experiments in strip- 

 ping, 96 



boiling of, 262 



feeding qualities of, 811-312 



Mehny's method of preparing, 267 



of the beet, analysis, 93 



of the beet, functions of, 91 



of the sugar beet, xxi, 91-99 



preservation of the, 259 



prevent the soil from receiving light, 

 heat, and air, 120 



pulling the, 193 



silos for the preservation of, 260 



stripping of, 94-99 



Leduc's experiments on keeping pulp, 

 309-311 

 method for reducing the beet to a 

 pulp, 297-300 

 Legrand, Simon, types of beets created 

 by, 73 

 upon mother beets, 183 

 Lepidoptera, 264 

 Leplay. M., 177 



pulp from the distillery of, this sys- 

 tem, 307 

 researches of, 107 

 system of distillation, 304, 305, 

 307 

 Lettson, Dr., 64 

 Levees of sugar lands, 49 



taxation for the building of, 49 

 Liebig, Baron von, xix 



errors in regard to manures, 



125 

 name for a malady of the beet, 

 242 

 Light in germination, 158 

 Lille, food given to cattle at, 302 

 Lime mixed with water for destruction 

 of insects, 268 

 plants, 211 



phosphate, basic, 186 

 soluble phosphate, 137 

 superphosphate, 136 

 Linard's idea for transportation, 224-225 

 Livingston Co., Illinois, Company formed 



in, 41 

 Locality for a factory, 62 

 Locomotive, road, 215 

 Long, AVhite, Green-top Mangel Wurzel, 

 64 

 Pied-top Mangel Wurzel, 65 

 Yellow Mangel Wurzel, 65 

 Loss of sugar and weight of beets, 238 

 by stripping, 99 

 causes of, 239-240 

 prevention of, 240-242 

 Louisiana, 48, 49 

 sugar in, xv 

 Lozenge, seeds planted in, 166 



Macarez, E., report of, on sugar factories 



of Cambrai, 34 

 Magdeburg beet, 67, 72 



selecting the mother beets at, 177 

 Maine, encouragement to beet sugar in- 

 dustry, 43 



experiments made in. 202 

 " Maladie du guano," 130 

 Malic acid, 81 

 Mangel Wurzel, 64, 65 

 Manner of planting the mothers, 184 



