338 
Nitrogen fertilizer for beets, 74, 78. 
Noctuidae (cutworms), 190. 
Number of beet factories in U. S. 
and Europe, 3. 
Oliver de Serres records sweet- 
ness of beets, 9. 
Oospora scabies Thaxt., 201. 
Organic matter in the soil, 63. 
Origin of soils, 56. 
Osmosis, 27. 
Oxnard Brothers, early interest in 
beet industry, 19. 
Pemphigus betae Doane, 194. 
Persia, sugar-cane in, 7. 
Pests and diseases of beets, 184- 
204, 
Phoma, 204. 
Phoma betae Frank, 200. 
Phosphoric acid fertilizer for beets, 
74, 77, 79. 
Pigs, feeding beet by-products to, 
167, 168, 175, 176, 180, 181. 
Plant-breeding, aid of to beets, 6. 
Plant-food : 
in the soil, 69. 
requirements of beets, 74. 
Planting : 
beet seed, 113-115. 
mothers or stecklinge, 225. 
Pliny on sugar in Arabia and 
India, 7. 
Plowing: 
best depths for beets, 108. 
reasons for thoroughness in, 104. 
time of, for beets, 106. 
Population increases with beet 
culture, 256. 
Portugal, King of, dispersed sugar- 
cane, 7. 
Potash fertilizer for beets, 74, 77, 
80. 
Precipitation, effect on beet grow- 
ing, 42. 
Preparation of beet land for irriga- 
tion, 129. 
Index 
Preparing seed-bed, effect of pres 
vious crop, 103. 
Price of land increased by beet 
raising, 2. 
Prices of first sugar, 8. 
Profits from seed production, 230. 
Prosperity follows beet culture, 256. 
Puddled soil, 62. 
Pulp from sugar-beets, 168-176. 
dried, 169. 
loss in siloing, 168. 
Pythium, 204. 
Quality of beets, factors effecting, 
205-212. 
Rainfall, effect on beet growing, 
40, 42. : 
Rhizoctonia of beet, 203, 204. 
Ripening: 
before digging time, danger of, 
150. 
indications of, 149. 
period, water requirements, 150. 
Rolling beet seed-bed, 111, 116, 
118, 
Root-rot or Rhizoctonia, 203. 
Root tips and waste sugar-beets 
for feeding, 176. 
Rotations, 86-91. 
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Salt as a fertilizer, 81. 
Sampling and taring beets on 
delivery, 156. 
San Domingo, sugar cane in, 8. 
Scab of beet (Oospora scabies Thaxt.), 
201. 
Science, aid to beet-sugar industry, 
6. 
Sedentary soils, 58. 
Seed : 
amount to sow, 114, 115. 
and flower of sugar-beet, 34. 
-bed: 
final preparation, 111. 
preparation and planting, 103-— 
116. 
