INDEX. 



319 



Manure between hills, the advantage of, 

 122 

 choice of, 145-151 

 complete, 146 

 Manures, xviii, xix, 123-151 



Deherain's experiments with, 145 

 green, 129 

 Maple sugar, 47 



Margaff, early suggestions as to extrac- 

 tion of alcohol from the beet, 25, 26 

 Mathieu, M., 169 



Maumeu^, M., on juice in pulp, 234 

 theory for the preservation of juice, 

 259 

 Mauritius, yield of cane sugar per acre, 



50 

 Mechanical devices for cultivation, 113 

 for farming, xvii 

 for sowing, 171, 172 

 hoe, 121 

 Mehay, M., experiments on the density 

 of the roots and of the juice, 180 

 method of preparing the leaves, 261 

 Melolontha, 264-271 



destruction of, 267, 269 

 uses of, 268 

 Men;-in, Dr., table of comparative values 



of pulps, 306 

 Methods of sowing influence the cost of 

 cultivation, 197 

 of sowing the seed, 168 

 Microscope, examination of the beet 



with, 74-80 

 Microscopic vegetable parasite, 130 

 Mineral fertilizers, xviii, 131, 140 

 phosphate, 137 

 substances in the beet, 82 

 Molasses as fertilizer, 139 



from beets, 61 

 Montague, Dr., 282 

 Montpellier attacked by Altise insects, 



275 

 Mother beet selecting, 177 

 Mothers, amount of seed furnished by, 

 188 

 manner of harvesting, 184 



Napoleon, 26, 27, 28 

 Neglect of American farmers, 59 

 Nematodes, 277 



New Jersey and Pennsylvania, yield in, 

 201 

 hoUowness of beets grown in, 290- 



291 

 Legislature of, encouragement to 

 beet sugar industry, 43 

 Nitrate of potassa, the disadvantage of 

 using, 137 



Nitrate of potassa — 



results in using, in large quan- 

 tities, 145 

 of soda, 133, 160 

 Nitric fertilizer, xviii, 131 

 Nitrogen, manner of absorption by the 



root, 133 

 Noctua, destruction of, 279 



segetum, 278 

 Northampton Beet Sugar Co., 41 

 Number of acres of land necessary to 

 supply the United States with 

 beets, 53 

 of factories in Holland, 39 

 of hands employed at Waghaeusel, 



36 

 of seed in one kilog., 168 



Oil cake, xviii, 129 



Organic manures, xviii, 127-131 



Oxalic acid, 81 



to activate germination, 161 



Pagnoul, M., 132 



analysis of insects, 270 

 experiments with manures, 140-144, 

 148, 149 

 Pailly's silo facilitating drainage, 249 

 Palatinate, horses fed on beets in, 294 



silo used in the, 246 

 Paris Exposition of 1878, xiii 



pulp at, 308 

 Parmentier, 27 

 Payen, M., xi, 81, 82, 86, 96 

 analysis of the beet, 83 

 estimate of, of cost for a, hectare, 



198 

 on "brown penetration," in the 



beet, 284, 285, 286 

 theory of the sugar in the beet, 84, 

 86 

 Paying for roots according to their sac- 



cliarine value, 177 

 Pectic acid, 81 

 Pectine, 81 

 Pectose, 81 

 Pellet and Champignon, experiments of, 



77 

 Pellot-Schnnz, 171 

 Pelouze, M., investigations of, in regard 



to beet sugar, 29 

 Pennsylvania and New Jersey, yield in, 



201 

 Percentage of seed that will not germi- 

 nate, 155 

 of sugar in the difi^erent zones, 86 

 of the total consumption of sugar 

 grown in the United States, 48 



