. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. LOSS IX TONNAGE OF SUGAE BEETS BY DEYING. 7 EFFECT OF DRYING UPON THE SUGAR CONTENT OF BEETS. At the time these experiments were carried on it was imprac- ticable to make tests of the sucrose content of the beets to ascertain the effect of the evaporation that took place, as indicated in the pre- ceding tables. After the writer's return to Washington, D. C, some beets were taken from the silo, carefully packed, and expressed to Washington for laboratory- tests. These beets were quite fresh and crisp when received. Eigh
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. LOSS IX TONNAGE OF SUGAE BEETS BY DEYING. 7 EFFECT OF DRYING UPON THE SUGAR CONTENT OF BEETS. At the time these experiments were carried on it was imprac- ticable to make tests of the sucrose content of the beets to ascertain the effect of the evaporation that took place, as indicated in the pre- ceding tables. After the writer's return to Washington, D. C, some beets were taken from the silo, carefully packed, and expressed to Washington for laboratory- tests. These beets were quite fresh and crisp when received. Eight of these beets were sent to the sugar laboratory of the Bureau of Chemistry on January 15, 1913. From each of them a diagonal core was rasped out for analysis. (Fig. 4.) Each end of. i'l'i. 4.—Sugar beets, sho\ving the method of rasping out a core from individual be€ts to make sucrose determinations. the hole thus made in the beets was immediately plugged with a rubber stopper, the beets being weighed before and after the core had been taken out. The beets were then returned to the writer, who exposed them to a brisk current of air in a well-lighted room at a temperature ranging from 73° to 77° F. for 4| hours, in which time the average lf)ss of weight of the eight beets was per cent. The beets were again tunu-d over to the sugar laboratory, where a similar core was taken irom (!ach be(!t for test. This was done shortly before noon of the foUowing day. Meantime the beets had been kept in a cool rliamber. As will })c socn })y Table VIT, the boots lost as mucli wliile in the sugar hdjoratory before being tested as during the exposure to the current of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P
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