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Contents 
CHAPTER XIII 
PESTS AND DISEASES 
Insect pests 
Extent of pest injury, 184 
Preventive measures for controlling pests, 185 
Blister-beetles, 187 
Army worms, 187 
The common army-worm, 188 
The fall army-worm, 189 
Sugar-beet webworm, 190 
Cutworms, 190 
White grubs, 191 
Wireworms, 192 
Flea-beetles and leaf-beetles, 193 
Grasshoppers, 193 
Beet-root aphis, 194 
Sugar-beet nematode, 195 
The beet leafhopper, 197 
Disease injury . : : : Fi 
Leaf-spot, 199 
Heart-rot, 200 
Scab, 201 
Soft-rot, 202 
Beet-rust, 202 
Rhizoctonia, 203 
Sugar-beet mosaic, 203° 
Damping-off, 204 
CHAPTER XIV 
FacToRS AFFECTING QUALITY OF BEETS . 
What are good beets’. ‘ F 
Conditions producing good beste. 
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