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was reduced to 0.9 per cent a day. On the other hand, when the 

 beets are thrown into small piles or are left scattered along the rows 

 from which they were pulled, the shrinkage increases greatly, reach- 

 ing 4.7 per cent in 24 hours in the Utah experiment and an average 

 of 6.48 per cent a day for four days in the experiment of Dr. Town- 

 send in Kansas. (Table III.) 



These data apply to conditions in the Western States, such as 

 Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, por- 

 tions of California, and possibly Arizona. In the Central and Eastern 

 States it is believed that the loss from evaporation would not be 

 quite so much, owing to the greater relative humidity of the atmos- 

 phere in those States. 



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