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The Wanzleben Company claim that they are able, 

 through their very multiple selections, variations from 

 the Original, to meet all the requirements of soil, fiscal 

 laws, etc., of countries with which they are in corre- 

 spondence. If such scientific problems could be solved, 

 the progress in that direction is far greater than we 

 ever thought possible. When one considers that the 

 fiscal laws of a country are constantly changing, to 

 meet these conditions at a moment's notice is very 

 creditable and an extraordinary achievement. It must 

 not be forgotten that ten years is a comparatively short 

 period in which to create a new type. The Wanzleben 

 laboratory can make 7000 analyses per diem, besides 

 which must be added the analyses for high testing 

 beets, these acting as a tally on work previously done. 

 In previous pages we have given several items show- 

 ing, and, at the same time, highly recommending, the 

 methods adopted. 



The Klein-Wanzleben Original demands a soil 

 that has been previously worked. The best results are 

 obtained on bottom lands, with sandy subsoil; manur- 

 ing the autumn before planting, at time of sowing 

 using sodic nitrate and superphosphate of lime; fre- 

 quent use of the cultivator between rows, and one of 

 the most important of all essentials is to keep beets 

 near together in rows. Do not be in a hurry to har- 

 vest this type of beet. American agents for this firm 

 are Meyer & Raapke, of Omaha, Nebraska. 



M. Knauer, Grobers, Germany. 



With a few exceptions, no person in the entire 

 Continental Europe has done more to improve the 

 quality of beets than Knauer; the very name of beet 

 seed and Knauer appear to be linked in some myste- 

 rious way. The firm has gone from father to son. 

 However, the son has introduced many important 

 changes of the most deserving kind. The individual 



