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Row. 
Distance 
apart of beets. 
Inches. 
Average 
weight of 
beets. 
Pounds. 
Weight 
of full stand, 
in tons 
per acre. 
Sugar 
in beet. 
Purity. 
27 and 80. 
4 
0.73 
24.0 
17.71 
76.3 
27 and 30. 
6 
0.89 
19.5 
17.10 
81.2 
27 and 80. 
8 
1.08 
17.8 
18.15 
80,7 
The differences in weight, owing to the different amount of 
space occupied by each beet, is quite noticeable, but the beets hav¬ 
ing the most room do not grow correspondingly larger in size, i. e n 
the beets eight inches apart are not twice as large as those four 
inches apart, hence the weight of crop per acre is again in favor of 
the closer stand. The differences in the analyses are not great, but, 
here again, the larger beets test slightly better than the smaller 
beets. 
Combining the five sets of tests, it can be said that, as a whole, 
they show that the distances apart of the beets, from four inches to 
ten inches, has but slight influence on ihe quality of the crop as to 
sugar and purity. It can also be said that it has some effect on the 
weight of the crop, and, if the stands are equal, more tons per acre 
will be raised at less that eight inches apart than at over this dis¬ 
tance. Even this latter statement can be given as only a general 
tendency, liable to many exceptions. Rows 57-92 were sown under 
as nearly as possible like conditions, were all thinned by the same 
person at nearly the same time, and the thinning was intended to 
be to six inches. As a fact, the rows vary from an average distance of 
four inches between the beets to more than eight inches. If, now, 
there are selected the four rows with the greatest number of beets 
and the four rows with the least, the following results are obtained: 
The crop from four rows, 708 feet long, with 1,711 beets, or an aver¬ 
age of five inches apart, weighed 1,199 pounds ; the other four rows 
of the same length, with 1,137 beets, or eight inches apart, yielded 
1,191 pounds. So that, in this case, the beets grew in size exactly 
proportional to the space they occupied. 
To get still further light on the question of the relation of size 
and quality, a test was made with row 53. The whole row was 
dug and the six largest beets selected, also six of medium size and 
the six smallest. 
Size. 
Average 
weight of 
beets. 
Pounds. 
Total solids 
in 
juice. 
Sugar 
in beet. 
Purity. 
Largest. 
1.73 
21.87 
16.34 
78.6 
Medium. 
0.85 
23.27 
17.33 
78.8 
Smallest. 
0.30 
24 53 
19.15 
82.5 
