70 Sugar-Beets and Beetroot Distillation. 
grown as rich in sugar as the Berkshire specimens, would appear 
favourable for the cultivation of that crop. 
Composition of Sugak-beets grown in 1870, near Wallingfoei), 
Berkshire. 
No. 1. 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
Water 
79-23 
79-84 
80-98 
*Albuminous compounds 
1-82 
1-92 
1-55 
4-18 
4-20 
3-20 
Pectin, colouring matter, &c. 
•45 
-54 
•47 
Crystallizable sugar .. 
13-31 
12 • 51 
12-72 
Mineral matter (ash) . . 
1^01 
-99 
1-08 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
Specific gravity of juice 
1-07.59 
1-0752 
1-0698 
At a temperature of 
67° F. 
70° F. 
67° F. 
Weight of each root : — 
lb. ozs. 
lb. ozs. 
lb. ozs. 
No. 1 
1 8i 
1 6J 
1 8| 
1 8| 
1 4 
1 Of 
,, 3 
1 U 
1 31 
1 0 
0 15i 
0 Ul| 
0 lit 
* Containing nitrogen 
•292 
•303 
-24S 
Composition op Sugar-beets grown in Yorkshire and in Surrey. 
No. 1. 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
No. 4. 
* Albuminous compounds .. 
Crystallizable sugar 
Mineral matter (ash) 
84-41 
-95 
2-60 
-67 
10-43 
•94 
80-78 
-95 
3-65 
-47 
13-27 
-88 
82-29 
1-23 
3-17 
•47 
11^78 
ro6 
85-45 
1- 45 
2- 40 
-41 
9-06 
1-23 
100^00 
100-00 
100-00 
100-00 
Specific gravity of juice .. 
Weight of roots : — 
No. 1 
0 
,, 3 
\ 

,, 6 
1-0585 
70° F. 
lbs. ozs. 
2 151 
• • 
1-0677 
60° F. 
lb. ozs. 
1 31 
I 8 
1 9 
1 10 
0 15 
0 14j 
1-0658 
66° F. 
lbs. ozs. 
3 5 
3 4 
2 12 
3 9 
2 Hi 
2 10 
l-0,''i23 
70° F. 
lbs. ozs. 
6 5 
6 0 
* Containing nitrogen 
•152 
•1.W 
•198 
•232 
The beets marked Nos, 1 and 2 were grown in Yorkshire. 
No. 1, at Bassal, by Mr. Charles Ellershaw ; and No. 2, at 
