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Table 2. 
The percentage of sugar and the results of the storing 
of the average proofs . 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
Variety 
I 
% invert 
sugar 
% total- 
sugar 
% rela- 
tive invert 
sugar 
Number 
of stored 
roots 
Number 
of rotten 
roots 
% of rot- 
ten roots 
Parisian carrot 
4.53 
6.90 
66.3 
100 
100 
100 
Guerande 
3.46 
6.45 
53.7 
78 
66 
84.6 
Nantes, stock A 
3.13 
6.69 
46.8 
21 
7 
33.3 
St. Valery, stock A 
j 2.83 
6.65 
42.4 
52 
14 
26.9 
Nantes, stock B 
2.21 
7.17 
30.8 
28 
2 
7.1 
St. Valery, stock B 
1 2.43 
8.13 
29.9 
20 
1 
5.o 
Table 2 gives a summary of the results of the sugar 
analysis and of the rot resistance of the average proofs. 
The differences between the total percentage of sugar, 
calculated as cane-sugar in the different sorts, are rather 
insignificant. The percentage of invert-sugar varies much 
more. The resistance towards rot is very different in 
the different varieties. The poor resistance of Guerande 
is especially remarkable. This sort is generally known 
to have a much greater resistance than Nantes , approa- 
ching St. Valery as to this character. The crop B of 
Nantes also shows an exception from the ordinary beha- 
viour of commercial stocks of this sort as to this cha- 
racter; it is much more resistant than the commercial 
sort, and its shape differed rather much from ordinary 
Nantes. As to good quality both are equal. It would 
perhaps be most correct not to call this crop Nantes. 
If the values obtained as to the resistance are com- 
pared with the results of the sugar analysis no reliable 
