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a Made in the Bureau of Soils. I". S. Department of Atrririilture. 



^Organic matter determinations were made by tin- wrt combustion mrthod. 



COMMENT ON ANALYSES. 



study of the analytical data in the above taMes is interesting 

 from a scientitic point of view, and is also conclusive, in >o far as one 

 series of observations can be, in regard to the very >iuall etl'ect which 

 the composition of the soil has upon the su^ar content of the beet. 

 AVhile it is doubtless true that the character of the soil influence- to a 

 greater or less degree the quality of some crops, it is certain that it- 

 principal influence in the case of the suo-ar beet is exerted alnm-t 

 exclusively upon the magnitude of the crop. In this connection the 

 writer would like to recall from personal experience two instance- 



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