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The average results of the analyses of No. 2 Plat: Mean sucrose in juice.13.1 

 cent ; mean purity, 82.7 per cent. 



Plat No. 3. Sixty individuals analysed gave the following mean results: Sucre 

 in juice, 14 per cent. 



Sixty beets analyzed in "tens" gave results recorded in Table XXIII. 



The mean results of the analyses of No. 3 Plat were: Mean sucrose in juice, 13.5 

 cent; mean purity 80.9 per cent. 



Phil No 4. Sixty individuals analyzed separately gave the following mean result 

 Sucrose in juice, 13 per cent. 



Sixty beets analyzed in "tens" gave the results recorded in Table XXIV. 



The mean results of the analyses of No. 4 Plat were: Mean sucrose in juice, 12.9 

 cent ; mean purity, 80 per cent. 



Plat No. 5. Sixty individuals analyzed separately gave the folio wing mean result 

 Sucrose in juice, 13.5 per cent. 



Sixty beets analyzed in "tens" gave the results recorded in Table XXV. 



The average results of the analyses of No. 5 Plat were : Mean sucrose in juice, 13.( 

 per cent; mean purity, 77.7 per cent. 



Plat No. 6. Sixty " individuals" analyzed separately gave the following me* 

 result: Sucrose in juice, 12.8 per cent. 



Sixty beets analysed in "tens" gave the results recorded in Table XXVI. 



The average results of the analyses of No. 6 Plat were: Mean sucrose in juice, 12.J 

 per cent; mean purity, 80.5 per cent. 



The value per acre of each of the plats, expressed in weight of beets and sugar 

 acre, was as follows : 



It must be said, by way of comment upon the comparatively low weights per aci 

 of the beets, that the small plats suffered the most excessive effects of the h 

 raius of June and July because of the ground lying lower than the large plats 

 by. Moreover, the rows ran from east to west instead of from north to south (tl 

 form of the plats made the other direction impracticable), and that was special! 

 disadvantageous in the wet season. 



It w r as observed that the individual beets were very little larger on the plats wh( 

 the rows were 22 inches apart than on the plats where the rows were only 12 inch< 

 distant from each other. The beets in the rows, however, were planted only 6 incht 

 apart on all the plats, and that circumstance controlled the comparative uniformity 

 of the size of the beets throughout, the. distance between the plants in the rowbeiuj 

 a more important factor than the distance between the rows in deciding the size of 

 the beet. 



SECOND SERIES. 



The five following plats were devoted to observing the effect of phosphorous ferti- 

 lizers upon the production of weight of beets and sugar per acre. 



The fertilizer experimented with was a slag phosphate. The application of the 

 fertilizer was at the time of planting the seed. The results may serve to indicate 

 that those soils do not require any aid from artificial fertilizing agents. 



