Index 
Cossettes, 261. 
Cost : 
and profit on beets, relation to 
acres raised, 237-240. 
of growing beets, 231-249. 
based on time, 240-246. 
in various sections, 234. 
of producing beet seed, 230, 
Crop: 
competition of sugar-beets, 44. 
rotations : 
principles governing, 88. 
reasons for, 86. 
Crowns and tops of beets, pro- 
portion of, 159. 
Crystallizing beet sirup at factory, 
264. 
Cuba, sugar-cane in, 8. 
Cultivating beets, 123. 
Cultivation previous to thinning, 
118. 
Curly-top or curly-leaf of beets, 
Cutworms, 190. 
Cyprus, sugar-cane in, 7. 
Damping-off disease, 204. 
Deep plowing best for beets, 2. 
Depth to plow beet land, 109. 
Development of beet-sugar 
dustry, 6. 
Digging: 
processes of, 151. 
time to begin, 149, 150. 
Dingley Act of 1897, favorable 
effect, 19. 
Disaccharids, 276. 
Diseases of beets, 198-204. 
Drainage : 
reasons for, effects of, 144, 145. 
system, installing, 147. 
Drains, kinds of, 146. 
Dried sugar-beet pulp, 169. 
Drought in early fall, danger from, 
150. 
Drying, effect on quality of beets, 
211. 
in- 
335 
Dyer sugar-beet factory first success 
in U.S., 19. 
Economic adaptation of beets, 44. 
Elateridae (Wireworms), 192. 
Euphrates valley, sugar-cane in, 
7, 
European: 
beet-sugar industry, early, 15. 
countries, early sugar supply, 8. 
introduction of sugar-cane, 7. 
sugar factories, number of, 3. 
Eutettiz tenella Baker, 197. 
Extracting beet juice in factory, 
261. 
Extraction of beet-sugar : 
first method, 9. 
percentage recovered now, 266. 
Factories : 
for beets, early failures in U.S., 
16-18. 
in U.S. and Europe, 3. 
Factors affecting quality of beets, 
205-212. ° 
Factory : 
essential factors for success, 52. 
first in U.S., 16. 
process of sugar making, 258-268, 
Failures of early beet industry in 
U.S., 16-18. 
Fall army-worm, 189. 
Fall plowing for sugar-beets, 106. 
Farming improved by beet culture, 
252, 
Farm manure: 
conserving, 84. 
for sugar-beets, 82, 
Feeding: 
beet pulp to: 
cattle, 170-174. 
horses, 175. 
pigs, 175. 
sheep, 174, 175. 
beet tops: 
methods, 161, 162. 
silage from, 166-168. 
