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The Effect of Applications of Common Salt upon the Yield and Quality of Sugar Beets and upon the Composition of the Ash 1
Author(s) -
Lill J. G.,
Byall S.,
Hurst L. A.
Publication year - 1938
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1938.00021962003000020002x
Subject(s) - sugar , division (mathematics) , biochemist , mathematics , chemistry , engineering , food science , biochemical engineering , arithmetic
F many years farmers have been interested in results from salt applications to sugar beets. Tests conducted by Brock (~)3 showed that, in several years of trial, the use of salt had increased stand, yield, and sucrose percentage over the results from comparable areas not receiving salt. In these tests, commercial fertilizers were used with and without salt, and in some cases only salt was applied. As a result of this report many Michigan beet growers, especially in that portion of the state where salt could be secured cheaply arid in quantity, have applied salt to the soil each year for their sugar beet crop. No accurate figures carl be obtained as to the acreage treated, rior the total amount of salt used, although both of these totals are known to be large.