160 Annual Report for 1905 of the Consulting Chemist. 
Sugar-beet grown in 1905. 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
Water .... 
Per cent. 
Per cent. 
Per cent. 
76-63 
Mangel beet 
84-92 
Sugar .... 
15-46 
13-23 
15-21 
14-99 
8-22 
Crude fibre . 
4-94 
4-19 
3-92 
5-26 
2-98 
- Albuminoids and 
Ash, &c. . 



3-12 
3-88 
100-00 100-00 
The samples (1, 2, 3, 4) of 1904 were grown near Norwich; 
No. 5 (1905) was from a 14 ton per acre crop, grown near 
Ipswich, the seed being of the Wanzleben variety, and 
manured with farmyard manure only ; No. 8 was grown in 
Bucks., and No. 9 was a sample of “mangel-beet” from the 
same farm. It will be noticed how much higher is the sugar 
percentage in the roots of 1905 than in those of 1904. Of the 
possibility, however, of growing in this country, in a favourable 
season, beet containing a good percentage of sugar there can be 
no longer any doubt ; but it is equally certain that there are 
many other factors that have to be taken into consideration 
before it can be concluded that the production of beet-sugar in 
this country will be a commercial success. 
3. Taints in Milk. 
In a private dairy consisting of six cows in-milk, the milk 
was noticed to have an offensive taste, and, on a sample being 
sent to me, I clearly recognised this to be the case. At my 
suggestion the cows were separately milked and the milk of 
each set aside, to ascertain, if possible, whether all the milk 
was equally affected (as would probably be the case if the fault 
lay in food or pasture or surroundings), or if it could be traced 
to one individual cow. In this way the trouble was traced to 
a particular cow, which was subsequently pronounced by a 
veterinary surgeon to be suffering from illness, and her 
removal from the herd caused also the disappearance of the 
objectionable taste observed in the mixed milk. 
List of samples analysed on behalf of members of the 
Society between December 1, 1904, and November 30, 1905 : — 
Linseed cakes ......... 57 
Undecorticated cotton cakes ...... 29 
Decorticated cotton cakes . . . . . . 15 
Compound feeding cakes and meals ..... 54 
Cereals .......... 9 
Rice meal ......... 1 
Bean and pea meals ........ 2 
Dried grains ......... 2 
