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EXPERIMENTS WITPI SUGAR BEETS. 
while 14 per cent, was taken (on an average) from the Ger¬ 
man crop of 1889. Every additional per cent, means an 
increase of twenty pounds of sugar per ton, or 300 pounds 
additional to the acre. In Nebraska 315 analyses of dif¬ 
ferent beets gave me an average of 16.10 per cent. In a 
field of beets, you will find sections which yield more 
than others, but they won’t vary more than 1 per cent., 
and I may say the average is 14 per cent. 
“ We have a method by which we are enabled to 
secure the best results in the beet cultivation, and that is 
by proper propagation of the plant. We weed out those 
that we know would produce inferior results, and we keep 
on watching with great care and allowing nothing to pro¬ 
duce seed that will not enhance the valuability of the seed. 
Producers are ascertained by boring out a quantity of the 
meat of a beet, after which the hole is plugged and a 
stake driven into the ground to mark that particular veg¬ 
etable. If, from an analysis, the beet gives promise of 
rare quality it is allowed to go to seed. No seed is 
taken from beets the quality of which is not proven to be 
of the highest order, and we desire to attain this degree of 
excellence in the propagation of the beet seed from which 
to grow our sugar producers.” 
TO CULTIVATE SUCCESSFULLY. 
“ The ground being carefully prepared, the seed is 
drilled in rows at distances from 16 to 18 inches apart, 
and 1 inch deep, after which the surface is smoothed with 
a roller. When the plants have grown from 4 to 6 
inches they must be separated, leaving a single plant 
from 6 to 8 inches apart,'in rows according to the fertility 
of the soil. This work is of the greatest importance, and 
if delayed will result in reducing the yield. 
“ It requires about twenty pounds of seed to sow an 
acre, the sowing being done about the same time that 
