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TABLE SHOWING PERCENTAGE OF SUGAR. 
Date. 
1 Number. 
Klein- 
wanzle- 
bener. 
Vil- 
morin. 
Lion 
Brand. 
Imperial. 
Lane’s 
Imperial, 
Klein- 
wanzle- 
bener. 
Vil- 
morin. 
Percentage of 
Sugar. 
Purity. 
Percentage of 
Sugar. 
s 
CL, 
Percentage of 
Sugar. 
Purity. 
Percentage of 
Sugar. 
Purity. 
Percentage of 
Sugar 
Purity. 
Percentage of. 
Sugar. 
Purity. 
Percentage of 
Sugar. 
Purity. 
September 2 
1 
7.72 
7.86 
8.21 
8.60 
8.36 
7.24 
2 
7.60 
6.75 
8.14 
9.21 
3 
6.94 
5.57 
7.18 
7.47 
Average 
7.75 
7.06 
7.84 
8.43 
8.36 
: 7.24 
September 8 
1 
9.06 
8.42 
7.61 
9.69 
10.60 
9.98 
2 
16.55 
8.02 
11.36 
11.87 
3 
7.97 
7.97 
7.37 
10.06 
Average 
9.19 
.... 
8.14 
8.78 
1 
10.54 
10.60 
9.98 
September 15 
1 1 
10.06 
1 .... 
7.28 
9.31 
9.06 
8.55 
9.73 
10.88 
1 
I.... 
10.46 
11.20 
13.19 
1 
3 
6.88 
I 
8.33 
6.21 
|10.06 
Average 
9.61 
8.69 
8.91 
10.77 
8.55 
!•••• 
9.73 
September 22 
1 
8.14 
74 
7.60 
76 
8.14 
74 
10.79 
77 
9.70 
81 
10.60 
75 
11.50 
77 
2 
10.73 
76 
10.73 
83 
10.02 
77 
10.85 
72 
10.73 
77 
I. .. 
3 
6.24 
62 
4.80 
48 
7.06 
71 
9.03 
70 
1 
L... 
Average 
8.37 
71 
7.71 
69 
8.41 
1 
73 
10.22 
73 
10.14 
79 
10.60 
75 
11.50 
77 
September 2Q 
1 
9.91 
76 
8.69 
72 
12.49 
89 
10.36 
74 
10.21 
73 
9.07 
70 
2 
10.42 
80 
9.03 
70 
10.36 
11.42 
71 
3 
8.07 
58 
6.85 
49 
7.86 
60 
7.24 
66 
Average 
9.47 
71 
7.86 
64 
10.27 
75 
9.67 
70 
10.21 
73 
9.07 
70 
October 6 
1 
8.29 
9.03 
70 
11.50 
77 
10.73 
72 
12.15 
81 
10.02 
72 
2 
9.80 
70 
10.98 
78 
11.69 
83 
12.00 
75 
3 
8.21 
91 
7.93 
66 
6.52 
65 
9.60 
70 
Average 
8.77 
80 
9.31 
71 
9.90 
75 
10.78 
72 
12.15 
81 
10.02 
72 
October 13 
1 
12.15 
76 
12.49 
78 
12.84 
80 
13.61 
80 
11.25 
80 
12 32 
77 
13.02 
77 
2 
14.70 
82 
10.13 
72 
13.61 
76 
15 . 20 
84 
9 91 
3 
8.44 
70 
10.21 
73 
11.84 
74 
12.15 
76 
9.21 
77 
Average 
11.76 
76 
10.94 
74 
12.76 
77 
13 65 
80 
10.12 
78 
12.32 
77 
13.02 
77 
The increase from September 2 to 15, inclusive, was posi- 
tive in all cases. But the samples taken on September 22 show a 
falling off, which is not wholly regained by all the varieties until 
October 13. The cause of this is, I think, a rainfall amounting to 
.74 inch, which took place between September 10 and 14 — mostly on 
the 14th. It did not produce a second growth. The beets were still 
