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Bulletin 58. 
§ 42. This set of samples shows that beets ranging from 1.20 
to 1.75 pounds, Nos. 12 to 7 inclusive, are preferable to either 
larger or smaller beets. It happens that we have six beets ranging 
from 2.4 to 4.4 pounds, showing an average of 14.62 per cent, of 
sugar, and six beets weighing less than a pound each, whose 
average sugar content is 14.60 per cent. I consider this a reason¬ 
ably fair test of this point, as the samples are of the same variety 
and taken consecutively, and from a portion of the rows where the 
stand was perfect. The beets were mature and in fine condition. 
wW § 43. Another set of samples was taken of another variety 
which had grown near an irrigating ditch, and near the edge of the 
patch. I knew that these conditions tended to the growth of large 
beets of low quality. But I desired to see what the relation of size 
to quality was in these. This variety was not known. The seed was 
purchased for Lane’s Imperial, but they were not Lane’s Imperial, 
being a sugar beet of the type of the Kleinwanzlebener, and but 
little inferior to this variety when grown under like conditions. 
This variety, under fairly favorable conditions, showed an average 
of 13.25 per cent, sugar, against 13.97 per cent, for the Klein¬ 
wanzlebener. A sample of this variety, grown on my own plot and 
taken a few da}^s before these, showed 12.59 per cent, sugar, with a 
coefficient of purity of 77.6. 
TABLE V.—RELATION OF SIZE OF BEETS TO SUGAR CONTENT— 
(Continued). 
Weight of 
Percentage of 
Coefficient 
Number. 
Beets in Pounds. 
Sugar in Beets. 
of Purity. 
1. 
.8.62 
10.59 
67.5 
2. 
.8.12 
10.45 
68.3 
3. 
.6.90 
9.64 
62.5 
4. 
.5.70 
9.50 
65.2 
5. 
.5.16 
10.45 
65.9 
6. 
.3.15 
12.11 
72.3 
7. 
.2.88 
10.45 
67.0 
8. 
.2.82 
9.26 
62.1 
9. 
.2.71 
10.21 
64.7 
10. 
.2.27 
8.46 
66.6 
11. 
.2.01 
9.98 
66.0 
12. 
.1.78 
10.45 
66.5 
13. 
.1.55 
12.35 
70.1 
14. 
.1.08 
10.45 
65.9 
15. 
.0.25 
11.88 
69.7 
§ 44. This set of samples is no more decisive than the pre¬ 
ceding. If it shows anything, it is that beets from one quarter 
to one and three quarter pounds will be better than larger beets; 
but taking the individual beets, we observe that the eight-pound 
beets are as good or better than the one pound sample, and that the 
three-pound sample is better than the one quarter pound one. The 
size seems less determinative under conditions of abundant 
moisture and favorable soil conditions than under others. 
