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the rate of about 20,000 marketable beets per acre ; " Detroit 

 Early Red Turnip," quality fair and marketable in from 90 to 

 100 days from the time of sowing and also " Early Blood 



Turnip," " Bastian," " Extra Early Electric," " Columbia, 

 " Extra Early Egyptian " and " Bassano " (Austen & Halstead, 

 Estacion Cent. Agronomica de Cuba, Bull. No. 13, June 1908, 

 " Vegetable grooving in Cuba," pp. 23-24). 



Raised from seed, sown in rows 9-10 in. apart and thinned 

 out to 4 or 6 in. apart, in the rows, perferably in a light rich 

 loamy soil. 



i?e/.— "The Cultivation of Sugar Beet," in Journ. Roy. 



Agric. Soc. Series 3, i. 1890, pp. 441-449. ""Sugar Beet 



Cultivation in Austria," Clarke, in I.e. ii. 1891, pp. 325-354; 



with illustrations of the various sugar-beets grown. " Essais 



de Culture de la Betterave a Sucre," Mauritius, Boname, in Rep. 



St. Agron. 1894, pp. 47-50. " The Improvement of the 



Su2ar-Beet and Sugar-Cane," in Kew Bull. 1897, pp. 317-318. 



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Manufactui 



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Soc. ix. 1898, pp. 344-370. The Sugar Beet, Wiley, U.S. Dept. 



Agric. Farmers' Bull, No. 52, 1899, pp. 1-47. Comparative 



Tests of Sugar-Beet Varieties, Tracy & Reed, U.S. Dept. Agric. 



Bureau of Plant Industry, Circ. No. 37, 1900, pp. 1-21. " On 



the Cost of Eighty-eight per cent. Beet-Sugar," in The Inter. 

 Sugar Journ, ii. 1900, pp. 172-176; cost per acre, &c, — '■ — ■ 

 Cultivation of Sugar-Beet in North India, Subbiah, Dcpt, of 

 Land Records and Agriculture, N.W. Prov. & Oudh, Bull. 



No, 13, 1901, pp. 1-12. " Manufacture of Alcohol from Sugar 



Beetroots," Stein, in Inter. Sugar Journ. iv, 1902, pp. 545-547 ; 

 vi. 1904, pp. 349-356; pp. 400-401; with balance sheet of an 

 Alcohol Distillery working 1000 gallons of (96 joer cent.) Alcohol 



per day, for a campaign of 120 days. De Findustrie du Sucre 



at en particulier de Sucre de Betteraves aux Etats-Unis, Vilmorin, 



pp. 1-16 (Compiegne, 1905). " The Cultivation of Sugar Beet,'' 



Sawer, in Natal Agric. Journ. x. 1907, pp. 883-887 ; with 4 plates 



showing types of desirable and undesirable roots. " Sugar 



Beet, Beta vulgaris,'' Townsend, in Cycl. Amer. Agric. ] 



ii. pp. 588-599, illustr. (M 



ion, 1907). 

 Townsend. 



in Year Book, United States Dept. Agric. 1908, pp. 443 452. 



Irrigation of Sugar Beets, Roeding, U.S. Dept. Agric. 



Farmers' Bull. No. 392, 1910, pp. 1-52, illustrated. Sugar 



Beet : Some Facts and Some Illusions, " Home Counties '" 

 (J. W. Robertson-Scott), pp. 1-424, illustrated {'' Field Office," 



London, 1911). "Cultivation of Sugar Beet," in Journ. 



Bd. Agric. xix. May 1912, pp. 134-135. " Sugar Beets as 



Live 

 Mangolds, Bd. of Agri 



664-668. Cultiva- 



" Sugar Beet Pulp for Feeding Live Stock," I.e. xx. Dec. 



1913, pp. 784-793 



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