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'Plic meteorological conditions were <|iiitc fayorable to the growth 

 of lcct>. especially in respect of (lie- distribution of the rainfall. In 

 the three months most important to growth, namely. June, July, and 

 August, the rainfall was abundant, while in September, the month 

 most favorable to ripening, and in October, the month of haryest, the 

 rainfall was deficient. In respect of dist ribnt ion of rainfall, there- 

 fore, the season was ideal for the oTowth of a su^ar beet. The tern 

 perature of the three principal Li'rowin^ months, as was to he expected, 

 was very much in excess of the maximum which is found to be host 

 suited to the product ion of beets of hi^h su^ar content . The exce^> 

 aboye the maximum of T<> F. for June was -J.-1 . for July l.s . and 

 for August ' . The distribution of the clear and cloudy days was 

 also fayorable to the y;rowth of the beets. Aside from the tempera- 

 ture, therefore, it may be said that the meteorological eondition> 

 Under which these beets grew were extremely fayorable. It would 

 appear from the consideration of this single plat that the temperature 

 is the most important factor in the production of a high-grade beet. 



EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED BY THE INDIANA STATION 



Prof. II. A. Huston makes the following report -as to the cultivation 



of the beets grown from the Pippe Klein v\ an/lehener Klite seed at 



Lafayette: 



Tin- special sugar-beet seel, No. :>77L', furnished us by the Department in 1901, 

 was planted on April .SO, I'.HIl. The land was plowed and subsoiled and was in fair 

 condition at the time of planting. As two (piite hot. days preceded the planting, the 

 soil temperature was sufficiently high. The seeds were planted in plats of six rows 

 each, there being four plats. The rows were about I'd rods long, but the sampling 

 was done upon the north end of the Held because the conditions were more uniform 

 there. The spaces between the four plats were tilled out by three plats of li rows 

 each from the other seed furnished by the Department. Samples of the soil and 

 subsoil were drawn on May 1, 1901, and forwarded to the Department. The beets 



came up on May 9. The stand was not very g 1 nor uniform, although double the 



usual amount of seed was used. As the season progressed the stand became still 

 more uneven and \\ as little improved by transplanting, although at two periods 

 when conditions seemed to be favorable beets were t ransp lanted to till the \acancirs. 

 The beets were thinned to S inches in the row, and the rows were !"_' ineht-s apart. 

 The cultivation was kept up into July. The season was decidedly unfavorable OB 

 account of the lack of moisture, and this fact combined with the rather uneven stand 

 gave a low yield, although t he beets were of \ er\ good ijiiality. < >n November I, the 

 average yield from the four plats of No. .")7~L' was .~>.4 tons of \\ashed capped beets 



per acre. The weighings upon tl ther plats showed that the yields were not 



materially different from this. The last samples were drawn on November I. < >n 

 November 4, the ground fro/.e and remained fro/.eu for several days, and no further 

 work was done upon the field, since the beets were badly fro/en to a depth !':! 

 inches. Previous to the heavy free/c the bulk of the Held had U-en harvested, a 

 small portion only being left to study the question of ripening. 



