04 THE SUGAR INDUSTRY. 



plots of Knauer's Imperial, variously distributed, gave an average of 26 tons with 

 12.5 per cent sugar. Seven plots of Vilmorin's Richest gave 14 tons with 13.2 per 

 cent sugar. Clay soils gave 13 tons with 12.5 per cent of sugar (all varieties); clay 

 loam 22 tons with 13.1 per cent sugar, and sandy loarn and gravel 28 tons with 12. 6 

 per cent sugar. We now have two imported varieties growing which will be tested 

 Liter. [Prof I. P. Roberts, director of Cornell agricultural experiment station and 

 professor of agriculture in Cornell university. 



MIDDLE STATES Comparatively little has been done m Pennsylvania. In New 

 Jersey, Maryland and Delaware, no proper tests in beet culture have been made re- 

 cently, but good beets were grown in the 70' s, and there is no reason why the crop 

 should not thrive on certain soils properly fertilized, Recent Maryland tests have not 

 given promising results. 



OHIO The experiment station has done little in this line, but private tests are 

 encouraging, and thousands will be made in 1897. 



MISSOURI Jn 1890, on upland limestone clay loam of average fertility in Boone 

 county,/ yield per acre highest 19 tons, lowest 12, average 15; sugar, highest 18 per 

 cent, lowest 10, average 14. In 1891, same farm, yield 8 to 12 tons, average 10; sugar 

 7 to 14 per cent, average Hi. In '92, tests were made in live northwestern counties, 

 northeast nine counties, southwest five, southeast one county, representing seven dif- 

 ferent varieties and 55 samples: Per cent of sugar in beets, highest 19, lowest 4.6, 

 average 9.8; purity, 47.5 to 79.3 per cent, averaging 67.3. These varieties at the sta- 

 tion in Boone county that year yielded 9 to 12 tons per acre, mean 8.8 tons; per cent 

 of sugar 7 to 13, average 11; purity 65 to 75, average 70. Director Waters says : 

 "Results thus far not encouraging, soil much too compact and hard; Missouri lies 

 south of best sugar belt, menu summer temperature 6 per cent higher than in 

 counties producing this crop most successfully. " We suggest much more work for 

 several seasons before throwing Missouri out of the sugar belt. 



OKLAHOMA Little work done. Director Morrow "believes climatic conditions 

 give little prospect of success." But if beets do wonders in Pecos valley, N M, they 

 ought to be tested thoroughly in Oklahoma. This also applies to Indian Territory. 



KANSAS Many plots of sugar beets grown at state experiment stations at Man- 

 hattan and other parts of state, '90-2. First year not conclusive; 300 tests in 56 coun- 

 ties were unsatisfactory in '91, owing to climatic conditions. For '92, the station and 

 85 farmers over the state raised beets, but the season was again unfavorable and the 

 results "cannot be regarded as lending great encouragement to the hope of the suc- 

 cessful establishment of the beet-sugar industry in this state. There are, however, a 

 considerable number of samples showing a high percentage of sugar." More work is 

 needed and evidently irrigation or other insurance against drouth is required. 



SOUTH DAKOTA Experiments were conducted in every county, 1889-93, results in 

 four bulletins, of which Nos 27 and 34 can still be supplied. Yield 10 to over 40 tons 

 of beets per acre on acre plots running from 15 to 20 tons as a fair average; sugar 

 content 9 to 20 per cent, very few samples below 12 mostly 13 to 16 per cent, three- 

 quarters of all samples showing 16 per cent sugar or more. Chemist J. II. Shepard 



