and Experiments on the Keeping Qualities of Roots. 169 
The following results wore; obtained Ivy the analyses of the 
various lots : — 
Swedes left 
standing in 
the Qroond 
until 
25lh April. 
A verage of A 
Hoots. 
Rwed"s 
placed in 
shallow 
Trench and 
covered with 
Earth. 
Average of 3 
Hoots. 
Swedes 
cleaned and 
pitted in the 
usual way. 
Average of 2 
Hoots. 
90 17 
•80 
3- 2G 
•74 
4- 14 
•59 
93-13 
•8L 
1-72 
•48 
3-37 
•49 
90-90 
•77 
2-5G 
•75 
4-4G 
•56 
100-00 
100-00 
ioo-oo 
At 
•128 
1-0312 
63J° Fahr. 
•130 
1-0194 
04° Fahr. 
•124 
1-0275 
62° Fahr. 
Weight of roots without tops : — 
No. 2 „ 
No. 3 „ 
lbs. ozs. 
2 13£ 
2 2i 
2 2" 
lbs. ozs. 
2 15 
2 1 
1 13i 
lbs. ozs. 
1 11 
1 5> 
As might have been expected, the roots which were kept in a 
glowing state until the 25th of April, and which by that time 
had tops, hard stems and sprouts, sustained damage in feeding- 
qualities. The swedes which were placed in a shallow trench 
with the tops on and covered with earth, it will be seen were 
particularly watery and poor in sugar, and the roots which had 
been cleaned and tailed and clamped in the usual way had, by 
the 25th of April, also lost much of the sugar which they con- 
tained at an earlier period. 
With regard to the loss in roots which had taken place in the 
several experimental lots when examined on the 25th of April, 
it was found that 12 per cent, of those left growing in the field 
untouched had rotted. The trenched lot had lost 5 per cent., 
and in the two heaps of cleaned and clamped swedes there were 
80 per cent, of rotten or useless roots. 
Both the heaps — the one which was put up on the 30th of 
November, and left undisturbed, and the other put up on the 
same day and moved and repitted on the 12th of March — shared 
the same fate. The roots in both heaps were covered in the usual 
way with straw and a good coating of earth, with a ventilator at 
the top, and probably would have kept far better had the season 
