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Silesian grown on poor soil contained 9.66 per cent, sugar; 
the same variety grown on rich soil contained 10.47 cent., 
while the Imperial, grown on poor soil, contained 10.44 P^r 
cent., and grown on rich soil, contained only 9.07 per 
cent. The difference in either ca&e is too small, especially 
as it is based on so small a number of analyses, to be con- 
clusive. 
The amount of sugar in successive transverse sections 
of these varieties was also made, the sections being taken 
one inch thick, beginning to number at the top. The result 
of this examination was that the first section contained less 
sugar than any other section, except in one instance, and 
always from two to over four per cent, less than the maxi- 
mum in any one section which was found in the tip of the 
beet. The increased amount of sugar was, with one excep- 
tion, quite marked in the second section of the beet ; in the 
succeeding sections it was much less and quite regular. In 
the case of the Silesian grown on rich soil the difference in 
the quantity of sugar in the first and second sections 
amounted to 1.21 per cent.; in the second and third to 0.7 
per cent.; in the third and fourth 0.29 per cent.; in the fourth 
and fifth 0.29 per cent.; in the fifth and sixth 0.04 per cent.; 
and in the sixth and seventh 0.25 per cent. The loss on 
dressing was between two and three per cent., and was about 
the same whether the beets were grown in rich or poor soil. 
The feeding value of the beets, as influenced by the soil, 
was also studied. The study of the tops was prevented by 
an early frost, but the analyses of the roots, as given in 
Bulletin No. ii, are as follows: 
Water. 
Crude 
ash. 
Fat. 
Crude | 
protein. 
1 Crude 
fiber. 
Nitrogen 
free 
extract. 
Silesian, poor soil 
87.17 
1.08 
0.24 
0.93 
0.83 
9.75 
Silesian, rich soil 
86.31 
1.28 
0.27 
1.77 
0.68 
9.69 
Ircperial, poor soil 
87.88 
0.80 
0.14 
0.81 
0.59 
9.78 
Imperial, rich soil 
89.80 
1.23 
0.18 
1.44 
0.44 
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Vilmorin 
88.69 
1.13 
0.18 
1.16 
0.62 
8.22 
♦Average analysis of sugar beets 
86.50 
0.90 
0.10 
1.80 
0.90 
9.80 
♦As ^iven by Jenkins and Winton, Kxp. Sta. Bui. 11. 
The same is true of the results recorded in this series 
of analyses as of the sugar determinations, i. e., they have a 
general value as they show the beets to have been about 
