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Although the parent of the present sugar beet was probably known and used before the building of the pyramid of Cheops (22), it was as recent as 210 years ago that Marggraf obtained the first crystalized sucrose from the root. It was 40 years later before Achard claimed its potentialities as an efficient industry. The product rapidly passed from the status of a luxury to a vital necessity, until today sugar beet production receives some protection or preference in every country where sugar beets are grown. Throughout its 174-year history it has probably been beset with a greater variety of problem and more failures than any other industry before or since. One of the greatest problems has been the actual means of sucrose extraction and determination. The determination of sucrose in sugar beets is the most important function in a beet sugar factory laboratory (3). This value is necessary as the basis for calculations of sugar yields and losses, for fixing the value of beets in factories where these are bought on the basis of their sugar content and for other purposes. Sugar content determinations are also for vital importance to the plant breeder, soil scientist, plant physiologist, and other researchers concerned with sugar beet analysis. Values of such importance should be determined by methods of corresponding accuracy. However, in 1927 Stanek and Vondrak (3) stated that there is no routine method as yet which permits the determination of the sugar in the beet to within an accuracy of 0.1 per cent. It is doubtful that the fundamental accuracy of the saccharimetry methods has improved much since this time. Numerous methods of sucrose analysis are used and are being recommended for use both in sugar beet factory and research laboratories. Although most methods now used are based on the principle of aqueous digestion and single polarimetry, there are wide variations in actual procedures. The available literature is deficient in adequate comparative studies into this problem. It would be of considerable value to researchers in sugar beet production and analysis to know the relative accuracy and precision of these methods and the effects of the several variables now prevalent.

The secondary or external benefits of increasing the availability of water for irrigation and changing the allocation of an existing water supply was analyzed from a theoretical point of view. "Input-output" models for Cache County, Utah, and for the state of Utah were used to indicate the intersectoral relationship of water used by agriculture and other sectors in each economy. The indirect value of water used by agriculture in Cache County was estimated. A method that extended the procedure used in this thesis was proposed that could be used to estimate the value of water in ether sectors. A "water matrix" was used to indicate reasons why large allocations of water to agriculture may be economically justified.

A sample of convenience was obtained in which 15 officers anonymously completed fitness reports on each other. Fitness report scales were examined to determine their quality based on the statistical considerations of a 'discrimination' and 'disagreement' index. The spread in scores (fitness marks) when a number of judges rated one individual was compared with that when an average judge rates a number of individuals. Generalizing from the study is limited by the size and nature of the sample. The study demonstrates a type of analysis that can be performed and the type of information that can be obtained by studies of this type http://archive.org/details/evaluationoffitn00gith NA