difficult to judge when the crop in general was ripe. There 
were only two samples dug before October 15 that could be 
profitably manufactured. These two, however, show such a 
very high grade as to seem to indicate that the lateness in 
ripening of the other crops was due to lack of care or the 
presence of too much alkali in the soil. 
INFLUENCE OF RIPENING. 
The process that goes on in the ripening of the beet is 
both an increase of pure sugar and a decrease of the impur- 
ities. This raises both the per cent of sugar and the per 
cent of purity.- By the purity of the beet is meant the rela- 
tion of the sugar to the whole amount of material in the 
beet that is not water. Suppose 100 pounds of the juice of 
some beets contain 80 pounds of water and 20 pounds of 
solids; and of that 20 pounds of solids 16 pounds are sugar; 
then it is said that the beet has sixteen-twentieths or eighty 
per cent of purity. 
The following table gives ten cases where samples were 
taken from the same field at different times in the fall. 
EARLY AND LATE SAMPLES. 
Name. 
Place. 
Date 
when 
sample 
was dug. 
Average 
First sample. 
Second sample. 
weight of 
the beets. 
Sugar. 
Purity. 
Sugar. 
Purity. 
S M Scott 
Fort Morgan 
Sept 24 
Nov 1 
Grams. 
430 
425 
Per cent. 
11.5 
Per cent. 
71.7 
Per cent. 
15.6 
Per cent. 
80.4 
T B Robinson 
Sept 24 
29 
310 
507 
11.9 
78.3 
13.3 
82.8 
J A Davis 
Berthoud 
Oct '2 
“ 23 
595 
794 
13.9 
81.6 
16.7 
84.5 
L A Dwight 
Boulder 
Oct 4 
Nov 4 
680 
454 
13.0 
77.0 
18.0 
84.3 
C G Anderson 
Eldred 
Oct 7 
“ 23 
397 
538 
12.4 
75.6 
16.0 
84.8 
Levi Ward 
Debeque 
Sept 1.5 
Oct 12 
1389 
510 
11.9 
78.1 
17.6 
86.0 
Mrs H C Hefner .... 
Mosca 
340 
368 
15.9 
86.9 
16.3 
84.6 
David Albright 
Poucha Spr’gs 
Oct 4 
“ 25 
821 
454 
13.6 
79.5 
17.4 
M B Colt 
Alamosa 
Oct 13 
Nov 3 
210 
15.7 
78.9 
16.1 
83.6 
709 
Chas Milne 
La J ara 
Oct 12 
“ 28 
1361 
879 
13.4 
78.7 
16.4 
84.3 
Averages. 
617 
570 
13.3 
78.6 
16.3 
83.9 
