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Bulletin 58. 
§ 46. The beets from the west half are by far better than those 
from the east half, and this, too, without regard to size, so that the 
beets from the two halves cannot be compared with one another. 
The number of beets exceeding 1.5 pounds from the east half stand 
to those from the west half as more than 2 to 1. The length of row 
dug was carefully measured, and the distance apart in the row 
determined ; for the Vilmorins it was 7.3 inches in the east, and 
8.25 inches in the west half; for the White Imperial it was 6.99 in 
the east and 6.66 in the west half; for the White French, 8.13 
inches in the east and 9.3 in the west half, and for the Dippe’s 
Kleinwanzlebener it was 6.3 in the east and 6.48 inches in the west 
half. The distance between the beets is well within the generally 
assumed proper limit. The shortest section of row dug was 20 feet, 
and the length of the rows was 400 feet. 
§ 47. A casual inspection of the table leaves the impression 
that the beets from the west end of the patch are smaller than 
those from the east half, and are richer in sugar than these. This 
is true, but I do not believe that the rest of the inference likely to 
be diawn, i. e., that it is because of their smaller size that they are 
richer, is justified. I believe that this depended upon some other 
factor. 
§ 48. It is difficult to satisfy oneself by a study of the results 
given in this table that there is anything shown by it more 
definitely than by the preceding ones. Taking each of the samples 
by itself, that is, comparing beets grown side by side, we find only 
two sets in the six where there is any decided difference in favor of 
the smaller beets, and these two are of the same variety, the White 
French, and the larger beets weigh from 3 to 7 times as 
much as the smaller beets. We cannot even allow this uncertain 
advantage to the smaller beets, in regard to coefficient of purity, for, 
according to the table, the difference is in favor of the larger beets. 
If from this table we select beets of the same size for comparison, 
we will find that those from the west end are the richer and better 
beets. The few exceptions which we find to this statement are 
confined to the White French variety. If we had dug the whole of 
the rows, and selected all of the beets weighing upwards of two 
pounds, we would have gotten at least two thirds of the sample 
from the east half of the patch, and if we had, in the same manner, 
collected a sample of beets weighing less than one pound, we would 
have gotten more than half of it from the west end, and these 
samples would not give us the data to judge of the relation of size 
to percentage of sugar. It would be, in a considerable degree at 
least, equivalent to comparing the large beets grown in the one half 
with the small beets grown in the other half, which conceals the 
relation between the size of the beet and its percentage of sugar. 
