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the method in use at the time in foreign beet-sugar fac- 

 tories for the removal of the sugar, and found that 

 substantially 1,900 pounds could be secured from an 

 average acre of beets. He stated that, if the same 

 equipment were available as employed in foreign sugar 

 factories, he believed that beets raised in Massachu- 

 setts could be made to yield as high as 2,270 pounds of 

 sugar per acre, the amount under favourable conditions 

 then secured in Germany. His object in conducting 

 these experiments was to demonstrate that by follow- 

 ing the methods of cultivation then in vogue in Ger- 

 many and France it was perfectly feasible to develop 

 the sugar-beet industry in Massachusetts. 



In the Tenth Report of the College John C. Dillon, the 

 farm superintendent, gives an illustrated description 

 of the machinery, imported from Germany under the 

 advice of Goessmann for the cultivation of the sugar 

 beet, which included a beet planter, several beet culti- 

 vators, and a beet digger. 



Third Paper. Report on experiments with sugar 

 beets. (Eleventh Report of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College, 1874.) The paper was devoted to the re- 

 sults of four field experiments with beets conducted on 

 the College grounds, and also in New York State and 

 in Canada. 



In Experiment I, roots of the Vilmorin and Electoral 

 varieties were grown upon land which had produced a 

 crop of beets the previous season, and which received 

 as a special fertilizer kainit and bone superphosphate. 

 The seed was collected and the next year planted on 



