Title
Bulletin No.
019
Document Type
Bulletin
Department
Department of Chemistry
Description
The Station began its work in the cultivation of the sugar beet three years ago, the single object of the experiment being to determine if the sugar beet, containing a per cent of sugar large enough for profitable manufacture, could be grown here in South. Dakota. Methods of planting, fertilizing and cultivating came in as secondary matters only, those already established in France and Germany being followed as nearly as seemed practical for our new soil and higher priced hand labor. The high sugar percent being now satisfactorily settled, the attention of the Station may, in the future, be directed to the economic production of the crop.
Keywords
sugar beets, beet crops
Pages
28
Publication Date
12-1890
Type
text
Format
application/pdf
Language
en
Publisher
South Dakota Agricultural College and Experiment Station
Recommended Citation
Foster, L. and Shepard, J.H., "The Sugar Beet" (1890). Research Bulletins of the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station (1887-2011). 19.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/agexperimentsta_bulletins/19
Comments
Departments of Agriculture and Chemistry