The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-30
FINE SUGAR BEETS
Will Doubtless Become a Large
and Profitable In
dustry.
HOW TO HARVEST THEM.
Farmers Should Carefully Read
the Following Official
Instructions.

All those farmers in the county
who received packages of sugar beet
seed from John Q. McKernan last
spring should read carefully the fol-
lowing letter of instructions, re-
garding the gathering of the beet
for analysis, sent out by c. d.
Smith, director of the agricultural
college. If farmers of this county
who have raised samples will leave
them at II. T. Ingersoll 5 store they
will be properly labeled and for
warded to the agricultural college
Believing that you are interested
in developing the sugar beet indus
try in this state, the department Of
agriculture at Washington, through
the experiment station at the agri-
cultural college, sent YOU some beet
seed last spring for trial in your To-
cality. Directions for planting and
cultivating were also sent. | trust
that these directions have been
strictly followed and that you have
specimens of such beets for testing.
Do not send the beets to this col
lege for analysis until they are ripe.
as shown by the outside leaves turn
ing yellowiSh green. or dropping
over to the ground. Harvesting
should be postponed to a late date,
because the fall sunshine will large
ly increase the amount of sugar, Ii
planted the fore part of May, they
may be ready for harvesting by the
middle Of October, though much de-
pends upon the season and the soil
When the beets are ripe and before
any second growth has taken place.
select row orrowS of average excel
lcnce, and gather every beet for sixty
six feet if the rows are eighteen
inches apart, or for tifty-nine feet il
the rows are twenty inches apart.
With a sharp knife cut off the tops,
removing all the neck to- which the
leaves were attached and which
showed above the ground. Weigh
the beets and multiply the number
of pounds by 1886, which will give
the yield per acre.
From these beets select three
beets of medium size. avoiding the
largest and the smallest, wrap them
in soft paper and send them in a
box To the Chemist of the Expert
huent Station, Lansing, Michigan,
preparing the express charges.
Fill out the blank sheets and
put in the box in which beets are
sent TO the station. No beets will
be aualyzed which are not samples
as above and properly identified.
Measure the entire plot of
ground planted, weigh or measure
in bushels the entire yield of bcets,
and report the results as a check on
the estimates above.
Saginaw, Oct 26. The reports of
the analyses of the first lot of sugar
beets sent from here to Washington
for examination have been received.
1t is gratifying to note that out of
the whole lot of ffty-two samples
analyzed only three of the samples
fall below the required standard,
which is 80 per cent purity and II
per cent sugar. The report shows
the beets to be of very high quality,
both as to purity and sugar contents.
the average of the tifty-two SAMPLES
being S3 81 per cent purity and ~
percentage of sugar. This is u
demonstration that the quality Of
the beets will be entirely salts
factory for the successful produc-
tion of sugar, some of the samples
reaching lS per cent sugar and 30
per cent purity.