INDEX. 



321 



Russia — 



importance of constant temperature 

 in tlie silos understood, 254 



quality of beets in, 39 



taxation of sugar in, 39 



time for sowing in, 162 

 Russian soils, 106 

 Ruta-baga, 66 



Sablo-calcareous, 107 

 Saccharine changes in the beet, 185 

 qualities and ashes of beet, 144 

 Sacks, M., 80 

 Saltpetre, 82, 161 

 Sandy soils, 106 

 San Jos^, California, 42 

 Santa Clara Valley Agricultural Society, 



42 

 Saxony, silo used in, 251 

 Scharcht, M., 77 

 Schubart, 35 

 Schuetzenback, 36 

 Schwartz, M., 90, 294 

 Schwertze, Dr., of Saxony, on food for 



cattle, 295 

 Scientific agriculture, need of, in the 



United States, 123 

 Seed, albumen contained in, 163 



amount of water they are capable 



of absorbing, 156 

 embryo, 163 

 furnished, amount of, by each 



mother, 188 

 of the beet, 152 



analysis of, 152-154 

 effects of the size of, 154 

 importance of, 154 

 selection of, according to density, 



154 

 sprinkling, with water before sow- 

 ing, 160 

 their age tested by boiling, 159 

 Seeds and sowing, 152-175 

 large and small, xix 

 method of sowing, 168 

 number of, in one kilog., 168 

 planted in lozenges, 160 

 planted in rectangle, advantage of, 



166 

 rolling of, 158 



various positions of, when planted, 

 165 

 Selection of seed according to density, 



154 

 Separation of the necks from the roots 



in harvesting, 192 

 Serres, Oliver de, 25 

 Shape of the beet, 87-90 



22 



Sicily, exhaustion of the soil of, 123 

 Silesian, White, 67, i 

 Silo for America, 256 



for the preservation of the leaves, 

 260 

 Silos, xxiii, 223, 237, 243, 257 

 Silpha, 273-275 

 Situation of the sugar lands in America, 



49 

 Soda, nitrate of, 133 



substitution of, for potassa, 138 

 Soil, elements of, taken up by one hec- 

 tare of beets, 95 

 exhaustion of, 123 

 for beets, xvi 



the preparation of, 110-122 

 Soils, American, adapted to beet culture, 

 101 

 analysis of French, 104 

 of Prussian, 102-3 

 color of, 102 

 experiments on, with manures, 146, 



149 

 general considerations, 101-109 

 poor, 137 



required by the beet, 106 

 Russian, 106 

 Soluble phosphate of lime, 137 

 Sorghum, 47 



Sowing and seed, 152, 175 

 broadcast, 169 

 depth for, 164 



mechanical devices for, 171, 172 

 time for, 161, 162 

 Sowing of the seed in large quantities, 



for insects, 272 

 Spanish silos, 237 

 Spermoderm, 156 

 Spongiole, disease of, 285 

 Spontaneous combustion at Blandain, 



Belgium, 134 

 Spring ploughing, 112 

 Sprinkling the seed with urine before 



sowing, 160 

 Sprinkling the seed with water before 



sowing, 100 

 Steinau, early beet sugar factory near, 



26 

 Stephenson Co., Illinois, company in, 41 

 Strassfurth, 137 



fertilizer from the mines of, 137 

 Striking increase of the production of 



beet sugar in Austria, 38 

 Structure of the beet, 74-90 

 Suberine, 81 

 Subsoil ploughing, xvii 



the importance of, in America, 

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