(42) 



A check ana]ysis oti another lot gave : 



Specific gravity 1 .04277 



Sugar 11.46pr.ct. 



Mr Blackwell reports : 



" I plowed the land about six inches deep with a cast 

 turning plow, and followed in the same furrow with a 

 coulter, breaking the land about 14 or 15 inches deep, and 

 applied 700 lbs. to the acre of "Dixon's Compound," com- 

 posed of equal parts of Peruvian guano, dissolved bone, plas- 

 ter and salt. I planted the seed the 4th of May. As soon 

 as necessary, I thinned them to 8 or 10 inches apart in the 

 drill, rows 22 inches apart. The first working was done 

 with a harrow, the second Avorking a small turning plow 

 was run, throwing one furrow to the beets, and harrow in 

 middle of the row, which was all the plowing I did to them ; 

 each time the hoes followed the plow, chopping out all 

 grass and weeds, and leaving the land nearly level. The 

 seed was planted on sandy soil with yellow clay (subsoil?) 

 The yield was only 140 bushels to the acre. We had the 

 worst seasons I ever saw, owing to excessive wet. My 

 crops of all kinds were seriously injured, as we had more rain 

 in my immediate neighborhood than any other part of the 

 country I gave one of my neighbors, W, B. Crews, some 

 of the seed, and his land Avas better adapted to beets than 

 mine, he using ashes as a fertilizer, his yield was 2o0 bushels 

 to the acre." 



LOT NO. 11. 



Raised by Mr. J. W. Wilson, Morganton, Burke county 

 Received in October. 



Total weight 30 J lbs. 



Weight of largest 3 " 



" smallest | " 



Average weight of 24 If " 



Specific gravity of juice 1.0175 



