932 Report on Crop Propvuction OF THE 
EXPERIMENT OF 1901. 
The seed of the two varieties of beets came from the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture. Each variety was planted in dupli- 
cate on both commercial fertilizer and farm manure plats 
TABLE XVII.—RESULTS OF MANURING SuGAR BEETs, 1901. 
Yield ficients 
of of Av. 
beets Sugar Sugar purity weight 
Plat. per in in o beets 
No. Variety and treatment. acre. beets. juice. juice. an’lyz’d 
Lbs. Per ct. “Per ct. Ozs. 
DeEP’T No. 6359, MEYERS FRIEDE- 
RICKSWERTER: 
1 80,000 lbs. stable manure per acre. 40,710 13.2 14.9 
2 1000 lbs. commercial fertilizer..... 36,660 12.3 16.5 
ie) =] 
% & a 
Oa 
i 
tS 
Ny 
8 No manure....... Sehr x4 eee a eee cece e Linn aie 
DEpP’T No. 5772, DIPPES GERMAN: 
4 80,000 lbs. stable manure per acre. 33,570 13.4 18.6 80 13.1 
5 1000 lbs, commercial fertilizer..... 28,190 15.6 20.7 87.7 12 
TABLE XVIIJI.—SUMMARY SHOWING EFFECT OF MANURES UPON YIELD AND 
COMPOSITION OF SUGAR BEETS, 1901. 
Yield Sugar Sugar Coef- 
of beets in in ficient of 
per acre. beets. juice, purity. 
Lbs. Per ct. Per ct. 
ING NETIUNOS SS 5 nics pies a's 6 poles ate stale aieie.s nme) paces sisi | aT it: 82.9 
1000 lbs. commercial fertilizer.......... 32,425 13:9 18.6 85.7 
80,000 lbs. stable manure. .....cseccoeees 37,140 13.3 tose 719 
In this experiment the commercial fertilizer used was similar 
to that applied in former years, both in kind and quantity, but 
the stable manure was increased from 40,000 to 80,000 Ibs. per 
acre. This was an excessive application of an animal manure, 
twice as much as what most farmers would consider a liberal 
quantity. Fifty beets from each plat were analyzed. Tables 
XVII and XVIII show results. 
DISCUSSION OF RESULTS. 
These experiments, which have been carried through four 
years, have included the growing of beets from high grade seed 
from various sources, at least six different varieties (names) 
