Ontario Sessional Papers, 1901, . Cultivation Crop that preceded Bee; crou When Plowed Depth of Furrow When Planted When Manured Kind of Seed Used Kind of Seeder Used Distance of Rows Distance of Plant When did Beets Turn to Yellowish Looks and Condition of Plants or Beets Land Is it Extremely Wet or Very Dry General Remarks Date of Inspection Name of Agent. 34 THE REPORT OF TBE [ No. 48 SUGAR BEET EXPERIMENTS IN ONTARIO IN 1900. Bt A. E. Shuttleworth, Ph D., Prof, of Chemistry, Ontario Agricdltdral Colleok GuELPH, Ont. The Beet Sugar industry has been before the attention of the peop
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1901, . Cultivation Crop that preceded Bee; crou When Plowed Depth of Furrow When Planted When Manured Kind of Seed Used Kind of Seeder Used Distance of Rows Distance of Plant When did Beets Turn to Yellowish Looks and Condition of Plants or Beets Land Is it Extremely Wet or Very Dry General Remarks Date of Inspection Name of Agent. 34 THE REPORT OF TBE [ No. 48 SUGAR BEET EXPERIMENTS IN ONTARIO IN 1900. Bt A. E. Shuttleworth, Ph D., Prof, of Chemistry, Ontario Agricdltdral Colleok GuELPH, Ont. The Beet Sugar industry has been before the attention of the people of Ontario fora number of years, during which time sugar beets, in small patches, have beengrown probably in every county of the earlier settled portions of the Province. Seedhas been received by our farmers either from seed stores or from capitalists or othersinterested in the establishment of the beet sugar industry in Ontario. It has been plantedand the crop cultivated much as farmers coirmonly plant and cultivate root crops grown,. Figure 1 is a patch belonging to Mr. D. Cole, Southend Welland Co., photographed just aftertiiinning, month after d&te of planting* 1900 SUGAR BEET INVESTIGATION. 25 to feed stock. Numerous sample?, containing from one to five roots each, have been for-warded to our chemical laboratory and analyzed, the results of which have been publishedfrom time to time in our annual reports. In the ysars 1889, 1890, 1891, 1897 and 1899,26, 117, 32, 40 and 89 samples of sugar beets respectively were received and analyzed, out ofwhich only 3, 68, 20, 25 and 30 samples, respectively, contained 12 per cent, or over ofsugar in beet and co efficient of purity of 80, or, in other words, 158 samples out of 304, orpractically 52 per cent., were too inferior in quality for factory purposes. These inferior re-sults were due entirely to a lack of knowledge on the farmers part of the conditions ofplanting, manuring, cultivating, etc, needed to produce b
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