STORING BEETS IN WISCONSIN.—_MENOMONEE FALLS FACTORY IN DISTANCE 
These silos are 6 feet wide at bottom; beets are piled in ridges about 2% feet high, and then covered with 1% feet of earth shoveled over them from 
the intervening space. Nostraw was used; ventilators every. 10 feet. In spite of warm weather since the beets were ensiled in October and November, 
1896, they came out. perfectly in February, losing only 1%4% of sugar on the average. The beets averaged about 14 % sugar when put in 
, and 1214 or more 
when taken out. Nearly 10,000 tons were stored in the silos illustrated, and 8,000 tons by the farmers. The plate is from Bulletin 55, 
Wisconsin experiment 
station. 
