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Beets: — Continued 
first used as stock food, 9. 
hauling to market, 155. 
plant food requirements of, 74. 
preparation for thinning, 117. 
promote good farming, 252. 
shape, effect of irrigation on, 143. 
size, irrigation applications for, 
136. 
soil adaptation, 43. 
storing at factory, 258. 
suggestive rotations for, 89, 90. 
time to irrigate, 133-136. 
time to prepare seed-bed for, 106. 
washing and weighing at factory, 
260. 
water requirements of, 131. 
Beet-sugar : 
industry: 
recent developments, 20, 21. 
successes in U.S., first, 19. 
production of U.S. by states, 322. 
production of various countries, 
326. 
Beet tops, 158-168. 
composition of, 159, 160. 
hay from, 162. 
methods of feeding, 161, 162. 
silage from, feeding, 166-168. 
siloing, 163-166. 
value of, as food, 159. 
yield of, 158, 159. 
Bengal, sugar-cane in, 7. 
Beta vulgaris species of plants, 22. 
Blister-beetles, 187. 
Blocking and thinning beets, 118. 
Botanical grouping of beets, 22. 
Boys and girls benefited by beet 
raising, 4. 
Brazil, sugar-cane in, 7. 
Breeding sugar-beet seed, 221. 
Business : 
increases with beet culture, 256. 
stabilized by beet raising, 4. 
By-products of: 
seed production, 228. 
sugar-beets, 158-183. 
Index 
California, first successful beet 
factories, 19. 
Cane-sugar (see sugar-cane). 
Capital requirements of beets, 48. 
Caradrina (laphygma) exigua Hbn., 
187. 
Cattle, feeding beet by-products to, 
161, 166, 167, 170-174, 178— 
180. 
Centrifuging the massecuite, 264. 
Cercospora beticola Sacc., 199, 
Children profit from beet culture, 
255. 
China, sugar-cane in, 7. 
Chlorophyll, 28. 
Chrysomelidae, 193. 
Classification of soils, 57. 
Climate, effect on quality of beets, 
208, 209. 
Climatic adaptation of beets, 37-43. 
Commercial : 
extraction of sugar, first, 10. 
fertilizer for beets, 77-81. 
production of beet seed, 223. 
use of sugar, first, 8. 
Common army-worm, 188. 
Community benefited by beet 
raising, 4. 
Competing crops of beets, 44. 
Composition of : 
sugar, 276. 
sugar-beet, 160. 
by-products, 160. 
tops, 159. 
Consumption of : 
sugar in U.S., 5. 
world sugar supply, 284-286. 
Contracts : 
for labor on sugar-beets, sample 
of, 100. 
to raise beets: 
advantages of, 92. 
items included in, 93. 
samples of, 95-100. 
types of, 94. 
Correlation, size and sugar content 
of beet, 33. 
