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Samples No. 1 and No. 2 were individual beets. No. 1 weighed 
4J pounds, No. 2 weighed 2 pounds. The sample of this plot, taken 
October 13, contained 12.32 per cent, sugar, and samples taken later 
ran as high as 12.9. The average of these beets is 12.2 per cent., 
from which, it appears, that the sugar has suffered no diminution, 
while its redistribution in the beets is very marked. 
Sample No. 3 was harvested October 29, and a part of the sam- 
ple was placed in a shallow silo immediately, in order to avoid any 
loss of water due to direct exposure to wind and sun ; the rest of the 
sample was taken to the laboratory and the sugar determined. The 
silo was opened December 1 9, and the beets found to be frozen hard. 
The sample analyzed, October 29, showed 14.03 per cent, of sugar, 
with a co-efficient of purity of 82, while the frozen sample of De- 
cember 19, showed 14.25 percent, of sugar, and a co-efficient of pur- 
ity of 84. 
Simple freezing does not cause any change in the sugar. This 
is an important consideration, or would become so, if our farmers 
were raising beets for a factory. If thawing could be prevented, the 
crop is not necessarily lost, if once frozen. 
THE DRYING OUT OF BEETS. 
I have already made incidental reference to this subject. It is 
of interest to both the producer and the manufacturer. I stated in 
a former paragraph that it is an easy matter to make a really poor 
crop appear to be a good one. It has, for years, been a cause of 
complaint that parties could always obtain better results from their 
samples by sending them to the Agricultural Department at Wash- 
ington, than by sending them to their home Station. The Station 
undoubtedly gave them too high results in the great majority of 
cases, and the Department, at Washington, has been giving them 
still higher, and yet, both of them have been giving them correct 
results for the samples as analyzed ; the samples, however, have not 
been representative of the crop as it stood in the field. 
The Department, at Washington, has repeatedly called attention 
to this fact. Dr. Walter Maxwell, in his report to Dr. Wiley, records 
several series of experiments made with the object of determining 
the amount of this loss, which he gives, as varying from 16 to 26 per 
cent, for beets tied up in a sack, and kept from the wind and sun 
for a period of seven days, and from 23 to 35 per cent, for beets un- 
der normal exposure to air and sun for the same length of time. 
Dr. Maxwell makes the average loss, in the case of beets protected 
from the action of wind and sun, 20 per cent, in seven days. 
It may be well to put this statement in a more concrete form, 
as we receive samples which have been pulled, or harvested, longer 
than this, and kept without any protection whatever. Assume that 
our sample, as received, weighs 40 ounces, and the juice shows a 
reading of 15 per cent., we report the sugar in the beet as 14.25 per 
