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Bulletin 58. 
TABLE VII.—EFFECTS OF EXCESSIVE FEEDING GROUND ON 
QUALITY OF BEETS. 
VARIETY. 
Number of Beets. 
Average Weight of 
Beets in Pounds. 
Percentage of Sugar 
in Beets. 
Coefficient of Purity. 
Percentage of Sugar 
in Beets Grown in 
Patch. Rows 18 inches, 
Beets 8 inches. 
Coefficient of Purity. 
• 
Vilmorin. 
6 
2 02 
12.78 
75.5 
9 
0.50 
14.30 
80.0 
13.97 
79.2 
White French. 
9 
1.95 
11.50 
73.0 
• 
12 
0.33 
11.82 
72.2 
13.16 
80.3 
White Imperial. 
10 
1.56 
10.31 
68.5 
3 
0.84 
11.50 
74.2 
• • • • 
18 
0.17 
10.59 
70.7 
11.88 
70.9 
§ 50. This exhibits the effect of growing free, which would 
probably have been more pronounced had the beets not been so 
crowded in the row. The Vilmorins averaged one beet to each 3.4 
inches, the White French one to each 3.5 inches, and the White 
Imperial one to each 2.4 inches. This made the beets so thick that 
they pressed one another outward from the row, and modified the 
effect of the row being single and with an excess of room laterally. 
In the case of the Vilmorin there is a decided superiority shown by 
the small beets in both percentage of sugar and coefficient of purity, 
1.5 per cent, in sugar and 4.5 in purity. The other two are so close 
that it is not decisive. The average of the Vilmorin is so close to 
the value found for the sample taken from the patch that it is not 
clear that the difference is due to the amount of space at the disposal 
of the beets. In the other two, however, there is a difference of one 
and one and a half per cent., respectively, in favor of the beets 
grown in the patch. The two soils in which these samples were 
grown are equally good, so far as one can judge. 
§ 51. My conclusion is that in the case of beets growing side 
by side, those ranging in weight from one to two pounds are richer 
in sugar, and of higher purity, than either the larger or smaller, 
and of the latter that there is a slight difference in percentage of 
sugar in favor of the smaller beets. But the difference in purity is 
slightly in favor of the larger beets, and in neither case is the 
difference great or constant. But large beets, grown under condi¬ 
tions differing from those under which the smaller beets have been 
grown, cannot be compared with the smaller ones. I also take it, 
as indicated by the values obtained from the samples from our 
