12 BULLETIN 199, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
was reduced to 0.9 per cent a day. On the other hand, when the 
beets are thrown into small piles or are left scattered along the rows 
from which they were pulled, the shrinkage increases greatly, reach- 
ing 4.7 per cent in 24 hours in the Utah experiment and an average 
of 6.48 per cent a day for four days in the experiment of J)r. Town- 
send in Kansas. (Table III.) 
These data apply to conditions in the Western States, such as 
Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, por- 
tions of California, and possibly Arizona. In the Central and Eastern 
States it is believed that the loss from evaporation would not be 
quite so much, owing to the greater relative humidity of the atmos- 
phere in those States. 
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