INDEX. 



323 



Ville, George — 



complete fertilizer of, 149 

 experiments on comparative results 

 of chemical fertilizers and barn- 

 yard manure, 140 

 investigations of, 125 

 on the effects of nitric elements on 

 the beet, 132 

 Villiant, Sebastian, 186 

 Vilmorin, M., 64, 67, 68, 69, 70 



experiments to test the density of 



beets, 179 

 improved beet, 71, 75 

 Violette, M., Charles, 72, 84 



on the form of the beet, 181, 182 

 test of the sugar in the beet, 181, 



182 

 theory of the location of the sugar, 

 181 

 Vivien, M., on the eflFects of nitrates in 

 the beet, 133 

 upon manuring soils, 149 



Waghaeusel, factory, 36 

 Walkhoff, M., 77, 103, 130 



advice on the mixture of guano, 



130 

 experiments with phosphate of am- 

 monia, 161 

 on depth for sowing, 165 

 on effects of rain, 174 

 on estimating the value of beets, 



205 

 on improvements in the mother beets, 



183 

 on Melolontba vulgaris, 268 

 on Eussian soils, 106, 254 

 on sugar and saline elements, 181 

 on time for sowing in Russia, 162 

 Ware, L. S., idea of harvesting the beets, 



194 

 Waste products of beet sugar factories, 

 130 

 utilization of, 139 

 Water that seeds can absorb at various 



temperatures, 156 

 Weeding, xvii 



Weight of beets, loss of, 238 

 West Indies yield of cane sugar per 



acre, 50 

 Wharton, Joseph, 42 



White Green-top Mangel Wurzel, 64 

 Red -top Mangel Wurzel, 65 

 Silesian, 67, 68, 72 



Green-top, 69 



Rose-top, 69, 70 

 Sugar Grayish-top, 70-71 



Tellow beet, or Yellow Castelnaudary, 63 

 Globe Mangel Wurzel, 65 

 Oval Mangel Wurzel, 65 

 Yield and cost of cultivation, 196-206 

 in beets to the acre with German 

 Red Mange! Wurzel, 64 



with Improved Vilmorin, 

 71 



with Long, White Mangel 

 Wurzel, 64 



with Long, White, Ked-top 

 Mangel Wurzel, 65 



with Red Globe Mangel 

 Wurzel, 65 



with the Magdeburg type, 

 67 



with White Silesian, 67 



with White Silesian Gray- 

 ish-top, 70 



with White Silesian Green- 

 top, 69 

 in cane sugar per acre in East In- 

 dies, 50 



in West Indies, 50 

 in sugar to the acre with German 

 Ked Mangel Wurzel, 64 



with Improved Vilmorin, 

 71 



with Long, White, Green- 

 top Mangel Wurzel, 64 



with Long, White, Red-top 

 Mangel Wurzel, 65 



with Magdeburg type, 67 



with White Silesian, 67 



with White Silesian Gray- 

 ish-top, 70 



with White Silesian Green- 

 top, 69 



with White Silesian Rose- 

 top, 70 



ZoUverein, production of sugar in, 1836- 



65, 37 

 Zones, transparent, in the beets, 84 



