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Results in the Platte valley. 9 
in the San Luis valley. 9 
Ripening, effect of irrigation. 17 
effect of rainfall.17, 21 
sugar increase. 17 
time of. 18 
Rows, length of.•.. 6 
Seed, failure to germinate. 21 
irrigated at planting. 13 
irrigated up... 7 
soaking before planting. 13 
sowing in three-inch furrow. 13 
quantity sown per acre. 7 
Season, effect on crop. 23 
Size, relation to sugar content. 23 
Small beets richer than large.•. 5 
Soaking, effects of. 25 
effect on pentoses. 25 
Soil, alkalized. 20 
Stand, methods of obtaining.:. 10 
Stock beets, effect on soda salts. 20 
Storing for factory. 8 
Straw as a dressing. 22 
Subsoiling, does it pay?. 14 
Sugar beet growing profitable.■. 6 
pulp as fodder. 12 
Sugar beets, on alfalfa ground. 8 
conclusions relative to culture. 26 
dry matter in. 18 
effect of crop on sodic clilorid. 20 
for stock feeding.•. 8 
grown without irrigation. 9 
increase in weight during last six weeks. 18 
should not follow manure. 8 
unharvested. 17 
Sugar in beets at Grand Island, Neb., in 1897. 11 
in New Mexico in 1897. 12 
at Norfolk, Neb., in 1897. 11 
Sugar, distribution in beets. 17 
effect of irrigations.1. 5 
formed during ripening. 17 
in crowns7.T. 17 
in dry matter. 18 
loss on drying out. 18 
deposited during ripening. 18 
Sugars in leaves. 25 
Thinning, distance.7, 13 
Time to plow. 6 
of ripening.9, 18 
to thin. 13 
Tops, as fodder. 8 
from alkali ground. 18 
ratio to weight of beets. 18 
Topping. 8 
Transplanting.:. 13 
Water conditions, of experimental plot, 1898. 21 
of experimental plot, 1899. 21 
Variety tests. 14 
Yields. 18 
