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the highest percentages of sugar (12.19 and 12.78 per 

 cent). 



Experiment IV gives the results of tests made by 

 Goessmann of beets grown in Canada under the super- 

 vision of the Canadian Department of Agriculture. 

 The sugar percentage varied from 8.83 to 11.38. He 

 concluded that a stricter compliance with the well- 

 endorsed rules of cultivation will, no doubt, produce 

 a higher and thus a satisfactory quality of sugar beets 

 in both localities. 



Fourth Paper. On the cultivation of the sugar beet 

 for the manufacture of sugar. (Agriculture of Massa- 

 chusetts, 1879.) 



Professor Goessmann presented a comprehensive 

 paper, giving the results of his experiments with sugar 

 at the College and also a review of the best methods of 

 sugar-beet cultivation, manufacture, and utilization 

 of by-products which were employed in Europe at that 

 time. His several papers attracted the attention of 

 thoughtful men all over the country as well as in 

 Canada. He believed that the production of beet sugar 

 would, at some time, be a Massachusetts industry. 

 The only difficulty he foresaw was in securing co- 

 operation between the farmer and the capitalist. At 

 the conclusion of his final paper on the subject, he says, 

 that the * future prospect of the beet-sugar manufac- 

 ture rests largely with the decision of our farmers, 

 whether they are willing to unite with our capitalists 

 in sharing the responsibility of the new industry.' 



Goessmann was a pioneer in advocating the beet- 



