Index 
Seed: — Continued 
crop, care during growth, 226. 
factors showing quality, 112. 
harvesting and threshing of, 227. 
importation of, 216-219. 
production, 213-230. 
by-products of, 228. 
commercial method of, 223. 
in U.S., 216. 
quality, importance of, 213, 214. 
raising, profits from, 230. 
sources of, 215. 
yield of, 229. 
Selection of mother beets, 221, 222. 
Sheep, feeding beet by-products to, 
167, 174, 175, 180. 
Sicily, sugar-cane in, 7. 
Signs of ripening in beet, 149. 
Silage from beet tops, use of, 166— 
168. 
Siloing: 
beets, 157. 
beet tops, 163-166. 
stecklinge, 224. 
Single-germ seed, 220. 
Sirup as source of sweet, 7. 
Size of beet and sugar content, 33. 
Slicing beets in factory, 261. 
Soft-rot of beets (Bacterium teut- 
lium Met.), 202. 
Soil: 
acidity, 68. 
adaptation of beets, 43. 
air in, 62. 
alkali, 66. 
and subsoil, 58. 
bacteria of, 70. 
determining fertilizer needs of, 
76. 
effect on quality of beets, 210. 
fertility : 
elements of, 69. 
maintenance of, 75. 
heat, 63. 
moisture, 64. 
organic matter of, 63. 
organisms, 70. 
339 
Soil: — Continued 
plant food in, 69. 
relation to beet culture, 54, 55. 
structure, 61. 
texture, 59, 60. 
tilth, improvement of, 61. 
Soils: 
adapted to sugar-beets, 71. 
classification of, 57. 
origin of, 56. 
Soot as a fertilizer, 81. 
Spain, sugar-cane taken to early, 7. 
Spreckels early sugar factory, 19. 
Stand of beets, importance of, 115, 
121, 
Stecklinge, 223, 225. 
Steffen process of extracting sugar, 
Stomata, 28. 
Storage: 
of beets, effect on quality, 211, 
212, 
of sugar in beet, 29, 30. 
Storing: 
beets at factory, 258. 
stecklinge, 224. 
Structure of soils, 61. 
Subsoil, 58. 
Subsoiling for beets, 109. 
Successful commercial beet sugar 
production in U. S., 18-21. 
Sucrose in beet, effect of irrigation 
on, 139, 140. 
Sugar: 
consumption of per capita, 284— 
286. 
content, relation to size of beet, 
33. 
early sources and prices of, 8. 
early use of, 6. 
extraction : 
early improvements in, 13. 
extraction from beets: 
first, 9. 
in U.S. by states, 322. 
in various countries, 326. 
opposition to, early, 10. 
