INFLUENCE OF MANURE UPON SUGAR 
BEETS.* 

W. H. JORDAN AND G. W. CHURCHILL. 
SUMMARY. 
(1) These experiments were undertaken to test the accuracy 
of the statement that sugar beets are of an inferior quality when 
grown on land to which stable manure is applied in the spring. 
(2) The experiments have been conducted during four consecu- 
tive years, mostly on the Station farm. Comparisons have been 
made of the quality of beets not manured, those grown with 
commercial fertilizer, mostly 1,000 lbs per acre, and those grown 
on land receiving in the spring, before planting the beets, from 
4(),000 Ibs. to 80,000 lbs. stable manure per acre. Beets from at 
least six varieties of seed were grown during the four years. 
(3) The results are almost unanimous in one direction. The 
beets have been of high quality with all three methods of treat- 
ment, averaging somewhat better with the farm manure than 
with no manure or with commercial fertilizers. 
INTRODUCTION. 
The value of a given lot of sugar beets for sugar-making pur- 
poses depends chiefly upon two factors, viz.: the percentage of 
saccharose in the beets and the percentage and character of 
the soluble compounds accompanying the sugar. In general a 
beet is valuable in proportion to its content of crystallizable 
sugar, but if this is attended by too large an amount of certain 
soluble non-sugars, the effect is to prevent the crystallization of 
some of the saccharose which under better conditions would be 
secured in the manufactured product. 
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