110 



equal an expense of $1.42 per ton of beets, assuming cost of labor and yield as under 

 No. 97.) 



261. Obtained first premium at the county fair for the beets. 



262. Beets were scarcely up by July 4; growth began about September 1. 



266. Not more than 10 per cent of seed germinated, on account of season being so 

 dry. 



205. Cutworms killed a good share of the beets. 



302. There was 1 pound of tops to 10 pounds of beets. 



309. The season was unfavorable for most crops, nearly all summer being very dry. 

 Corn did not do more than half. 



311. I noticed a black bug an inch long from the middle of July to the last of Au- 

 gust, which injured the leaves of the beets considerably. I have frequently noticed 

 the same bug on potatoes. If you send me seed for next season I think I shall do 

 considerably better, having learned some by experience. 



317. During the hot weather in August swarms of black bugs, one-half an inch in 

 length, went for the tops in places, making a clean sweep as far as they went, eating 

 the tender part of the leaf, leaving nothing but the limb. The bugs remained about 

 three weeks ; the damage retarded the growth of the beets for a short time, but they 

 recovered entirely from the injury and most of them are quite large now. * 

 Am satisfied sugar beets would do well in this neighborhood. * * * My expe- 

 rience this year shows they are determined to grow in the soil here no matter how 

 long the drought or how many bugs they have to contend with. 



330. For growing beets manure year before planting, to have manure well rotted. 



342. The season being very dry the seed did not come up until June 25. * * * 

 The seed being of good quality made a good stand. Had the season been favorable 

 the yield could have been at least one-half more. Considering the very dry season 

 I think sugar beets withstand the drought better than the Yellow Tankard mangel 

 planted along side of them, the beets being deeper rooted. 



351. The season has been the driest that 1 ever experienced in Wisconsin. It is 

 really wonderful that I got as good a crop as I have harvested. 



352. I think a common season ought to double the yield. 



353. The seed lay in the ground six weeks before germinating. With the same 

 growing weather as in 1890 should have had twice the amount, for iny land was far 

 better than last year. 



365. It has been an extremely dry season. Consider them almost a total failure. 



From the tables of analyses we deduct the following statements: 



Lowest analysis, 1891 per cent sugar in the juice. . 7. 1.2 



Highest do 23. 52 



Average of 373 analyses do 12. 56 



Average estimated yield of beets per acre pounds . . 31, 090 



The average per cent of sugar in the juice for this year came at 12.56. This may 

 be considered a fair average, although there is evidently considerable room for 

 improvement. The average for Germany during the past season is estimated at 12.55 

 per cent. Last year the beets analyzed at this station (93 in all) averaged 12.46 per 

 cent of sugar in the juice. Only eleven farmers scut in beets both years; the average 

 of the samples furnished by these were, in 1890, 11.85 per cent; in 1891, 14.30 percent 

 of sugar in the juice, or 2.45 per cent increase in 1891. This would tend to show 

 that the main reason for the rather inferior quality of beets grown by many farmers 

 lies in their unacquaintance with the sugar beet and its culture ; excepting the eleven 

 farmers who furnished samples both years, there were only a A'cry few who had had 

 any previous experience in growing sugar beets. Another reason lies in the fact 

 that the farmers are apt to send in the largest beets grown, thinking that the'lan-rg 

 beets they can grow the better; doubtless the analyses given in the above table are 



