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EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED BY THE MICHIGAN STATION. 



As will be seen by reference to the following table, two sets of 

 experiments were conducted at the Michigan station, field No. 3 

 having been planted May 16, with rows 18 inches apart, and thinned 

 June 15, while field No. 6 was not planted until June S, and was 

 thinned July 8 and 9, the rows being 21 inches apart.- The soil of 

 field No. 3 is described as a sandy loam and that of field No. <', as a 

 gravelly loam. The constituents of the soil will be discussed in detail 

 under that heading. While leaf spot checked the growth somewhat, 

 the season was in general very favorable, cool, and with a great deal 

 of sunshine. The data for both fields are as follows: 



Agricultural and analytical data on l>ects grown at the M><-hi<in />/> /////,/// 



Agricultural College. 



FIELD NO. 3, EARLY PLANTING, MAY 16, 1901. 





FIELD NO. 6, LATE PLANTING, JUNE 8-9, 1901. 



" III the t\\<> package-, arriving on these Mate.-, the beets harvested from the two fields could not In- 

 separated. 



The analytical data furnished by the station showed an average 

 weight of beets in the field of \-\ ounces, 1 H.7 per cent of sugar in the 

 beets, a coefficient of purity of 7'..L\ and a yield per acre of 1 l.ii tons. 



In case of the early planting, while the average weight of the heel> 

 ua- -lightly below the normal, the otimated yield per acre was far 

 above the average, namely, !.">. 1 tons. The data for the late plant ing, 

 June S and !, field No. ',. -dmw practically the same ijuality of beets 

 a- rcgard> -ugar content and an even highei' purity, but. in so far a^ 

 yield pci- acre is cnncernecl. the crop wa> only about one-third that of 

 the early planting. 



The beets grown during Itiof were of a better quality than those of 

 the jireceding year, the percentage of Migar in the beet and the 



