Excerpt from Journal of the American Society of Agronomy, 1916, Vol. 8 Excessive amounts of nitrates in the soil tend to produce a large, coarse, and brittle beet which does not ripen properly in the fall and which is apt to be low in both sugar content and purity. Such beets generally do not work up well in the factory and their low sugar con tent and low purity reduce the sugar yield and increase the molasses, hence the beets are expensive to work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.