LOSS IN TONNAGE OF SUGAR BEETS T.Y DRYING. 3 
Table I. — Results of drying experiments with sugar beets not topped, at Ogden, Utah 
in 1912. 
Date. 
Time of 
weighing. 
Weight. 
Loss. 
Expo ure. 
Pounds. 
Percent. 
October 17 
10.00 a. m. 
1.50 p. m. 
5.30 p. in. 
10.00 a.m. 
Pounds. 
418 
388. 25 
37ii. 5 
374. 75 
Hours. 
Do 
29. 7:> 
1 1 . 77. 
1 . 7:, 
7. 1 
2.8 
.42 
ft 
n 
24 
Do 
1 October 18 
Total L 
43. 25 
10.32 
j , 
THE DRYING OF BEETS PULLED, TOPPED, AND LEFT IN RATHER SMALL PILES. 
On the morning of October 17, 1912, four other rows of beets were 
dug, pulled, and topped as rapidly as possible. The tops and beets 
Fig. 2.— Topped sugar beets in medium-sized piles (in the foreground) and in small piles (in the back- 
ground), referred to in Tables III and II, respectively. 
were weighed separately. The beets were thrown into small open 
piles (fig. 2) according to a common practice among beet growers, 
and the tops from the four rows were laid in a single windrow. At 
intervals the beets and tops were weighed. The mean temperature 
during this experiment was 50° F. (See fig. 1.) This experiment 
was repeated on the following day. The loss in weight of beets and 
tops together was 5.19 per cent. The mean temperature during this 
experiment was 62° F. (See fig. 1.) The results are shown in 
Table II. 
